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life cycle of C. calligraphus,
its development is principally
conditioned by temperature
and life-cycle delays serve to
adjust development so as to
ensure seasonal coincidence
(Danks, 2006).
Therefore, subtropical C.
calligraphus could be described
as multivoltine, with
several overlapped cohorts
(at least four) of short duration
at high temperatures
(spring-summer) with high
rates of development and an
exponential population growth,
followed by one or two generations
of longer duration
in winter, when it probably
remains in a dormant stage.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This study was supported
by a grant from Universidad
Nacional del Litoral (UNL)
and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y
Técnicas (CONICET). The
present paper is the Scientific
Contribution N° 828 of the
Instituto de Limnología “R.A.
Ringuelet” (ILPLA) La Plata,
Argentina.
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