A safety band prevents falling of the suspended pupa of the butterfly Inachis io (Nymphalidae) during moult. A comparison with the girdled pupa of Pieris brassicae (Pieridae, Lepidoptera)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 129-136

  Starnecker, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INACHIS IO; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SATYRINAE;

EID: 0032371431     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004350050063     Document Type: Article

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