Visual mate detection and mate flight pursuit in relation to sunspot size in a woodland territorial butterfly

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-23

  Bergman, Martin ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

butterfly vision; Lepidoptera; light gap; mate searching; Pararge aegeria; sexual selection; speckled wood butterfly; territoriality

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DETECTION METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE CHOICE; MATE LOCATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; TERRITORIALITY; VISUAL CUE; WOODLAND;

LEPIDOPTERA; PARARGE AEGERIA;

EID: 67349175780     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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