The significance of wing pattern diversity in the Lycaenidae: Mate discrimination by two recently diverged species

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 871-879

  Fordyce, J A ^a   Nice, C C ^b   Forister, M L ^a   Shapiro, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly wing pattern; Courtship behaviour; Diversification; Lycaeides; Lycaenidae; Mate recognition; Morphology; Morphometrics; Signalling

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COURTSHIP; MATE RECOGNITION; MORPHOMETRY; ORNAMENTATION; SIGNALING; WING MORPHOLOGY;

IDAS; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAEIDES; LYCAEIDES IDAS; LYCAEIDES MELISSA; LYCAENIDAE; MELISSA OFFICINALIS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0036711622     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2002.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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