[Parental behavior in Dermaptera].

Abstract

Parent-young relations are far from being unvarying and simple, even within a group as homogeneous and modest in number (1000 actual species) as Dermaptera. Care of the eggs by a female and the contacts she maintains with her larvae are neither established nor developed in an automatic way, but are amenable to important regulations in which behaviour itself is implied. The presence of larvae also has an important effect on the later development of the female's behaviour. Relationships can be established between known inter and intraspecific differences and between. -- the ovarian organization and activity of each species or population, on the one hand and -- the living conditions adopted by each species or population (Labidura riparia, Anechura bipunctata, Forficula auricularia) on the other. Collecting all the eco-etho and physiological data can be useful for understanding the development of Dermapteran maternal behaviour.