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Perception in Butterflies [PDF]
Nature, 1873 THE interesting discussion on this subject in your columns has hitherto been almost entirely confined to facts of extraordinary “perception” with mammalia. But in-other classes of the animal kingdom there occur instances perhaps even more astonishing still, showing a power of perception which we needs must attribute to smell, unless we are inclined to ...
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Wellcome Open ResearchWe present a genome assembly from an individual female Tetheella fluctuosa (the Satin Lutestring moth; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Drepanidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 369.10 megabases.
Tom Prescott
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The Butterflies of Europe [PDF]
Nature, 1884 FOR some years past the writer of this notice has, almost annually, formed one of the members of that large class of Englishmen who, each year, spend a few weeks in the Alpine and sub-Alpine districts of Europe for “relaxation.” The writer prefers to leave it to the taste and fancy of the individuals interested to define the meaning of the latter term.
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Nature Communications, 2015 The glasswing butterfly (Greta oto) has, as its name suggests, transparent wings with remarkable low haze and reflectance over the whole visible spectral range even for large view angles of 80°. This omnidirectional anti-reflection behaviour is caused by
R. Siddique, G. Gomard, H. Hölscher
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016 Lyriothemis defonsekai van der Poorten, 2009 is a nationally Critically Endangered odonate species in Sri Lanka. It is endemic to the country and was known only from the type locality, Kudawa, Sinharaja Forest Reserve and its vicinity thus it was ...
Amila P. Sumanapala +1 more
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LIV.—Descriptions of three new species of butterflies captured by Mr. D. Cator in British North Borneo, in the collection of Mr. Grose Smith [PDF]
, 1892 H. Grose Smith
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A genetic mechanism for female-limited Batesian mimicry in Papilio butterfly
Nature Genetics, 2015 In Batesian mimicry, animals avoid predation by resembling distasteful models. In the swallowtail butterfly Papilio polytes, only mimetic-form females resemble the unpalatable butterfly Pachliopta aristolochiae. A recent report showed that a single gene,
H. Nishikawa +17 more
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