Butterfly wing colours: Scale beads make white pierid wings brighter

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1548, 2004, Pages 1577-1584

  Stavenga, D G ^a   Stowe, S ^b   Siebke, K ^b   Zeil, J ^b   Arikawa, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colour contrast; Heliconius; Pieridae; Reflectance; Wing pigmentation

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLOR; REFLECTANCE; WING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIAS NIGRINA; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HELICONUS MELPOPMENE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PIERIS RAPAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALIA; DELIAS; DELIAS NIGRINA; HELICONIUS; HELICONIUS MELPOMENE; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 3242891351     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2781     Document Type: Article

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