Why natural hybrids are hard to detect and verify: Exemplified by a rare primary hybridization event between two tiger swallowtail butterfly species in Northern Michigan

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-35

  Donovan, Jennifer ^a   Scriber, J Mark ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diapause; Host plants; Morphological analysis; Papilio canadensis; Papilio glaucus

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

GLAUCUS; LEPIDOPTERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS; PAPILIO; PAPILIO CANADENSIS; PAPILIO GLAUCUS; PAPILIONIDAE;

EID: 0037523449     PISSN: 00240966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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