Oliver Betz


 

Oliver Betz
Zoologisches Institut der Universität Kiel
Lehrstuhl für Ökologie
Olshausenstr. 40
D-24098 Kiel
Germany


Phone : ++49-(0)431-8804148
Fax : ++49-(0)431-8804143

E-mail : obetz@zoologie.uni-kiel.de
URL : http:\\www.rz.uni-kiel.de:8080/zoologie/


 

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Functional and ecological morphology of Staphylinoidea including behavioural studies. At present, I am concerned with Stenus species, their mouthparts, compound eyes, ...

  

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Betz, J.O. (1992): Studies on winter-active larvae of the ground beetle Carabus problematicus (Coleoptera, Carabidae), Pedobiologia, 36, 159-167.

Enders, D., Tiebes, J., De Kimpe, N., Keppens, M., Stevens, C., Smagghe, G. & Betz, O. (1993): Enantioselective synthesis and determination of the configuration of stenusine, the spreading agent of the beetle Stenus comma, J. Org. Chem., 58, 4881-4884.

Betz, O. (1995): Vergleichende Untersuchungen zur Bedeutung des Labiums im Beutefangverhalten bei Stenus spp. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Mitt. Dtsch. Ges. Allg. Angew. Ent., 10, 591-594.

Betz, O. (1996): Function and evolution of the adhesion-capture apparatus of Stenus species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Zoomorphology, 116, 15-34.

Betz, O. (1998): Comparative studies on the predatory behaviour of Stenus spp. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): the significance of its specialized labial apparatus, J. Zool., Lond., 244, 527-544.

Betz, O. (1998): Life forms and hunting behaviour of some Cental European Stenus species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Appl. Soil Ecol., in press.

Bauer, T., Desender, K., Morwinsky, T. & Betz, O. (1998), Eye morphology reflects habitat demands in three closely related ground beetle species (Coleoptera, Carabidae), J. Zool., Lond., in press.

Betz, O. ,A behavioural inventory of adult Stenus species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), J. Nat. Hist., submitted.

Kölsch, G. & Betz, O., Ultrastructure and function of the adhesion-capture apparatus of Stenus species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Zoomorphology, submitted.