Patterns of feeding behaviour in adult male riodinid butterflies and their relationship to morphology and ecology

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-23

  Hall, Jason P W ^a,b   Willmott, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive syndromes; Bait trapping; Ecuador; Flight speed; Food substrate choice; Lepidoptera; Metabolic rate; Perching behaviour; Puddling; Wing area:thoracic volume ratio

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; RIODINIDAE; RIODININI;

EID: 0033966922     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1999.0345     Document Type: Article

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