A brachypterous butterfly?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Viloria, Angel L ^a,d   Pyrcz, Tomasz W ^b   Wojtusiak, Janusz ^b   Ferrer Paris, José R ^c,d   Beccaloni, George W ^a   Sattler, Klaus ^a   Lees, David C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Flightlessness; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae; Redonda; Satyrinae; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FLIGHTLESSNESS;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; VENEZUELA;

ANDES; VENEZUELA;

INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PYRCZ; REDONDA BORDONI; RHOPALOCERA; SATYRINAE;

EID: 0042531675     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0015     Document Type: Article

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