Ambush hunter attacks land snails in its burrow: Unique larval stage of the click beetle Anthracalaus sakaguchii

Ecology. 2024 Mar;105(3):e4245. doi: 10.1002/ecy.4245. Epub 2024 Jan 29.

Authors

Nozomu Sato¹, Hisanori Okamiya^{2

3}, Aiki Yamada²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Tourism Science, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka, Japan.

PMID: 38286649
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4245

No abstract available

Keywords: Agrypninae; Bradybaenidae; Camaenidae; Eratridae; predator-prey interaction; snail eating.

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution
Coleoptera*
Larva
Snails