Food intake of fruit-feeding butterflies: Evidence for adaptive variation in proboscis morphology

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-343

  Molleman, Freerk ^a,d   Krenn, Harald W ^b   Van Alphen, Monique E ^a   Brakefield, Paul M ^a   Devries, Philip J ^c   Zwaan, Bas J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Charaxinae; Intake rate; Lepidoptera; Life history; Nymphalinae; Post ingestive behaviour; Puddling; Satyrinae; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BUTTERFLY; FOOD INTAKE; MORPHOLOGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA; WORLD;

CHARAXINAE; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; NYMPHALINAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; SATYRINAE;

EID: 27744509737     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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