Extraordinarily quick visual startle reflexes of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) are among the fastest recorded in the animal Kingdom

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 653-655

  Sourakov, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BUTTERFLY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; LIGHT EFFECT;

ANIMALIA; HESPERIIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 74549145637     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/024.092.0420     Document Type: Article

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