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Cryptoses choloepi: A Coprophagous Moth That Lives on a Sloth.

J K Waage, G G Montgomery.   

Abstract

The larvae of the sloth moth, Cryptoses choloepi, live in the dung of the three-toed sloth, Bradypus infuscatus. Adult female moths apparently leave the fur of the sloth to oviposit when the sloth descends, once a week, to the forest floor to defecate. Newly emerged moths fly from the dung pile into the forest canopy to find a sloth.

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Year:  1976        PMID： 17759254     DOI： 10.1126/science.193.4248.157

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


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