Phenotypic plasticity in hoverflies: The relationship between colour pattern and season in Episyrphus balteatus and other Syrphidae

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 425-432

  Holloway, Graham J ^a   Marriott, Cliff G ^b   Crocker, Helen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Colour pattern; Fitness; Image analysis; Phenotypic plasticity; Syrphidae; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL COLOUR; COLOUR PATTERN; HOVERFLY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEASONALITY; THERMOREGULATED;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; EPISYRPHUS; EPISYRPHUS BALTEATUS; ERISTALIS; METASYRPHUS; SYRPHIDAE;

EID: 0030680284     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1997.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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