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Troidine swallowtails (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in southeastern Brazil: natural history and foodplant relationships.
Brown KSJr,Damman Aj,Feeny P +2 more
- Vol. 19, Iss: 4, pp 199-226
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Atlantic Forest Butterflies: Indicators for Landscape Conservation1
TL;DR: The Atlantic Forest region (wide sense) includes very complex tropical environments, increasingly threatened by extensive anthropogenic conversion (>90%). Ecologically specialized, short-generation insects (butterflies) are evaluated here as indicators for monitoring community richness, landscape integrity, and sustainable resource use in the region as discussed by the authors.
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Individual selection, kin selection, and the shifting balance in the evolution of warning colours: the evidence from butterflies
James Mallet,Michael C. Singer +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence for these mechanisms is discussed, as are the similarities between the evolution of warning colours and more general evolutionary processes, including sexual selection and speciation.
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Butterfly communities of urban forest fragments in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Structure, instability, environmental correlates, and conservation
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of butterfly communities in 15 urban/suburban remnants of tropical semideciduous forest in Campinas (Sao Paulo state, SE Brazil; 24°S, 47°W), with areas from 1.0 to 252 ha and widely varying histories and environments, shows that the most significant factors, besides area and sampling time, distinguishing the sites and influencing their diversity (80−702 species) and composition are connectivity, permanent water, vegetation, flowers, and human impact (negative, including pollution).
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Larval Growth and Survivorship of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly in Central New York
TL;DR: The results, supple- mented by predator-exclusion experiments in 1977, indicate that predation is the major source of larval mortality, small (arthropod) predators having the greatest impact on younger larvae and large (vertebrate) predators the greatestimpact on older stages.
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Host‐plant relationships in the papilionidae (lepidoptera): parallel cladogenesis or colonization?
TL;DR: It is concluded that no documented examples of parallel cladogenesis between insects and plants are known, and it is suggested that host association patterns in the Papilionidae have resulted from repeated colonization of plants belonging to a relatively small number of families.
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