The adaptive significance of batesian mimicry in the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polytes (Insecta, Papilionidae): associative learning in a predator

Ethology

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 762-775

  Uésugi, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PAPILIO POLYTES; LEPIDOPTERA; PACHLIOPTA ARISTOLOCHIAE; PAPILIONIDAE;

ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE; BATESIAN MIMICRY; MIMICRY; SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY;

EID: 0030303392     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01165.x     Document Type: Article

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