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Twilight Fighting in the Evening Brown Butterfly, Melanitis leda (L.) (Nymphalidae): Age and Residency Effects

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2003
Butterflies are conspicuous among animals that fight for mating opportunities because it is not clear how contest costs could accrue. Nevertheless, the bulk of research in this group suggests that contests are settled on the basis of asymmetries in ...
Darrell J. Kemp
exaly   +3 more sources

Visual Mate-Searching Behaviour in the Evening Brown Butterfly, Melanitis leda (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Australian Journal of Entomology, 2002
As in most animals, male butterflies are generally the more proactive sex with respect to seeking out mating opportunities. In most cases, males conduct their search sometime between mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but a few species are active only before
Darrell J. Kemp
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Melanitis leda Ismene (Rice Butterfly)

CABI Compendium, 2022
This datasheet on Melanitis leda ismene covers Identity, Overview, Distribution, Hosts/Species Affected, Diagnosis, Biology & Ecology, Natural Enemies, Impacts, Prevention/Control, Further Information.
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First Confirmed Record of the Rare Great Evening Brown, Melanitis Zitenius Zitenius (Herbst, 1796) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) in the Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India

Indian Forester
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Arun Pratap Singh
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The Population Status and Female Genitalia of Melanitis Zitenius (Herbst, 1796), (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) in Arunachal Pradesh, India

Insect Environment
The female genitalia of the rare butterfly Melanitis zitenius (Herbst, 1796) was examined for the first time from Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Narender Sharma, Aftab Ahmad
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome of the Common Evening Brown, Melanitis leda Linnaeus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

Mitochondrial DNA, 2013
Qun Yang
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Development time integrates temperature and host plant cues for eyespot size in three tropical satyrine butterflies.

Journal of insect physiology
Many tropical butterflies have distinct wet and dry season adult morphs differing in the size of wing eyespots. Eyespot size is influenced by the environment experienced by developing larvae, and this plasticity is adaptive because the morphs have higher
I. Prasannakumar, F. Molleman, Dheeraj Chandavarkar, U. Kodandaramaiah   +3 more
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Tropical Dry and Wet Season Polyphenism in the Butterfly Melanitis leda (Satyrinae): Phenotypic Plasticity and Climatic Correlates

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1987
Paul Martin Brakefield
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Melanitis phedima

CABI Compendium, 2022
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Melanitis suyadana

CABI Compendium, 2022
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