Observations on the spectral reflectances of certain high Andean Penaincisalia and Thecloxurina, with the description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 42, Issue 25-26, 2008, Pages 1793-1804

  Bálint, Zsolt ^a   Boyer, Pierre ^b   Kertész, Krisztián ^c   Biró, László P ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b Lotissement l'Horizon ^*  (France)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Andes; Discolouration; Eumaeini; Lycaenidae; Penaincisalia; Reflectance; Scale nanostructure; South America Thecloxurina

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TAXONOMY; TYPE LOCALITY; WING;

ANDES; APURIMAC; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EUMAEINI; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE;

EID: 49749127247     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930802097675     Document Type: Article

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