Mate-locating strategies are related to relative body length and wing colour in the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegeria

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 116-120

  Van Dyck, Hans ^b   Matthysen, Erik ^c   Dhondt, Andre A ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Butterflies; mate locating strategies; morphological variation; Pararge aegeria; wing length:body length ratio

Indexed keywords

PARARGE AEGERIA; LEPIDOPTERA; SATYRIDAE;

BODY LENGTH; SPECKLED WOOD BUTTERFLY; STRATEGY MATE LOCATION; WING COLOUR;

EID: 0030618440     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1997.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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