BioOne.org will be down briefly for maintenance on 17 December 2024 between 18:00-22:00 Pacific Time US. We apologize for any inconvenience.
How to translate text using browser tools
1 December 2017 Positive Allometry of Horns in the Rhinoceros Beetle Golofa xiximeca Does Not Follow Breaking-Point Patterns
Daniel A. Vera-Cano, Hugo A. Álvarez, Miguel A. Morón
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

Scaling relationships between horns and body size were analyzed for a population of male rhinoceros beetle Golofa xiximeca Morón. Recent accounts suggested that horns of several species of most of the genera in the rhinoceros beetle subfamily Dynastinae showed positive and breaking-point allometries. To learn if the pattern was the same in G. xiximeca, we used allometric analysis to search for linear and breaking-point allometries of 46 males. The results suggested that patterns of the head horn and the pronotal horn were linear. The scale of the pronotal horn and head horn was significantly positively correlated with body size. The analysis indicated steeper slope with 5.20 units for the pronotal horn than the head horn slope with 4.33 units, but comparison analysis showed differences in slope were not statistically significant. Results were discussed in the context of sole versus mixed data collection and positive allometric response to selection pressure.

Daniel A. Vera-Cano, Hugo A. Álvarez, and Miguel A. Morón "Positive Allometry of Horns in the Rhinoceros Beetle Golofa xiximeca Does Not Follow Breaking-Point Patterns," Southwestern Entomologist 42(4), 933-940, (1 December 2017). https://doi.org/10.3958/059.042.0412
Published: 1 December 2017
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission
Back to Top