Functional morphology of the feeding apparatus and evolution of proboscis length in metalmark butterflies (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 291-304

  Bauder, Julia Anne Sophie ^a   Handschuh, Stephan ^a,b   Metscher, Brian Douglas ^a   Krenn, Harald Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Flower visitor; Haemolymph pump; Insect; Mouthparts; Sensilla; Suction pump

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; SUCTION;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; RIODINIDAE;

EID: 84883823846     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12134     Document Type: Article

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