Diversity in structural ultraviolet coloration among female sulphur butterflies (Coliadinae, Pieridae)

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 280-290

  Rutowski, Ronald L ^a   Macedonia, Joseph M ^a   Kemp, Darrell J ^a   Taylor Taft, Laura ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly coloration; Sexual dichromatism

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; PTERIN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRIGHTNESS; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; COLOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WING;

COLIADINAE; EUREMA; EUREMA HECABE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE;

EID: 34548455892     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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