Vortex visualization during free flight of heliconiine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-203

  Grodnitsky, Dmitry L ^a   Dudley, Robert ^b,c  

^a SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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