Wing Color Pattern as the Releaser of Mating Behavior in the Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio xuthus L.(Lepidoptera : Papilionidae)

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  • アゲハチョウ(Papilio xuthus L.)(鱗翅目:アゲハチョウ科)の配偶行動リリーサーとしての翅の色彩パターン

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The male of Papilio xuthus, a Japanese black-and-yellow Swallowtail butterfly visually determines his conspecific mate during courtship. Field experiments with various dummies and models reveated that the visual releaser of the male's approach is not the color of the wing alone but its striped pattern of black and yellow.

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