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

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)291-304
Number of pages14
JournalBiological Journal of the Linnean Society: a journal of evolution
Volume110
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2013

Funding

We are grateful to the Tropical Research Station La Gamba, Costa Rica, for making available their laboratory facilities and the Department of Theoretical Biology, Vienna, for providing their Micro-CT facilities. We want to thank Mag. Philipp Oberrisser for his enthusiastic support in the field catching butterflies. We also thank Dr Norbert Milasowszky for his valuable comments and discussions. Furthermore, we are grateful to Eddy Gomez Ramirez, Centro de Investigacion en Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, for providing us with fixatives. The Costa Rican Ministerio del Ambients y Energia kindly granted research permits. We thank three anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions. The study was funded by FWF (P 22248 B17).

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106012 Evolutionary research
  • 106054 Zoology

Keywords

  • flower-visitor
  • haemolymph pump
  • insect
  • mouthparts
  • sensilla
  • suction pump
  • VANESSA-CARDUI NYMPHALIDAE
  • MANDUCA-SEXTA
  • NECTAR CONCENTRATION
  • ADULT LEPIDOPTERA
  • MOUTHPARTS
  • SENSILLA
  • BEHAVIOR
  • INSECTA
  • MOTH
  • MUSCULATURE

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