Effect of light quality and larval diet on morph induction in the polymorphic caterpillar Nemoria arizonaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-285

  Greene, Erick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive coloration; colon change caterpillars; crypsis; diet induced polymorphism; Geometridae; mimicry; Nemuria arizonaria; polyphenism

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMORIA; NEMORIA ARIZONARIA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; QUERCUS;

EID: 0029802808     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0036     Document Type: Article

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