Some Possible Cases of Escape Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies

@article{Pinheiro2014SomePC,
  title={Some Possible Cases of Escape Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies},
  author={C. G. Pinheiro and A. Freitas},
  journal={Neotropical Entomology},
  year={2014},
  volume={43},
  pages={393-398}
}
  • C. G. Pinheiro, A. Freitas
  • Published 2014
  • Medicine, Biology
  • Neotropical Entomology
    • The possibility that escape or evasive mimicry evolved in butterflies and other prey insects in a similar fashion to classical Batesian and Müllerian mimicry has long been advanced in the literature. However, there is a general disagreement among lepidopterists and evolutionary biologists on whether or not escape mimicry exists, as well as in which mimicry rings this form of mimicry has evolved. Here, we review some purported cases of escape mimicry in Neotropical butterflies and suggest new… CONTINUE READING
    View on Springer
    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
    15 Citations
    Background Citations
    6

    Figures and Topics from this paper

    Figures

    Explore Further: Topics Discussed in This Paper

    15 Citations
    Citation Type

    Citation Type

    Both Palatable and Unpalatable Butterflies Use Bright Colors to Signal Difficulty of Capture to Predators
    • 18
    • PDF
    ASSOCIATION FOR TROPICAL LEPIDOPTERA
    • 18
    • PDF
    The roles of wing color pattern and geography in the evolution of Neotropical Preponini butterflies
    Hard to catch: Experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry
    • 1
    • PDF
    The Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera): Phylogeny, Origins, and Leaf-Like Crypsis
    • 2
    Full Issue
    Reinventing the leaf: multiple origins of leaf-like wings in katydids (Orthoptera : Tettigoniidae)
    • 10
    • PDF
    Butterfly Predators in the Neotropics: Which Birds are Involved?
    • 5
    More Than Colours: An Eco-Evolutionary Framework for Wing Shape Diversity in Butterflies
    • 6
    Color pattern divergence in Napeocles jucunda Hübner, 1808 (Nymphalidae) is accompanied by shifts in host plant and habitat use

    References

    SHOWING 1-10 OF 67 REFERENCES
    Does Müllerian Mimicry Work in Nature? Experiments with Butterflies and Birds (Tyrannidae)1
    • 19
    The role of escape in mimicry and polymorphism: I. The response of captive birds to artificial prey
    • 40
    Batesian mimicry without distastefulness?
    • 37
    Locomotor Mimicry in Butterflies? A Critical Review of the Evidence
    • 26
    Ecology, natural history and behaviour of Ithomiine butterflies and their mimics in Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae).
    • 69
    Palatablility and escaping ability in Neotropical butterflies: tests with wild kingbirds (Tyrannus melancholicus, Tyrannidae)
    • 98
    Evidence for the Deflective Function of Eyespots in Wild Junonia evarete Cramer (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
    • 10
    Asynchrony in daily activity patterns of butterfly models and mimics
    • 11
    Flight morphology of Neotropical butterflies: palatability and distribution of mass to the thorax and abdomen
    • 98
    A simulation of evasive mimicry in the wild
    • 14