Host-plant relationships of lycaenid butterflies: Large-scale patterns, interactions with plant chemistry, and mutualism with ants

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 259-267

  Fiedler, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

defence; Formicidae; Lycaenidae; myrmecophily; nutritional constraints; secondary plant metabolites; systematics; tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; LYCAENID; LYCAENIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

FLAVONOID; HOST PLANT; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHILY; NUTRIENT; PIGMENT; PLANT CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0029659482     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb00931.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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