Both Palatable and Unpalatable Butterflies Use Bright Colors to Signal Difficulty of Capture to Predators

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• 作者：C E G Pinheiro ; A V L Freitas ; V C Campos ; P J DeVries ; C M Penz
• 关键词：Aposematism ; avoidance learning ; crypsis ; mimicry ; Neotropical ; protective coloration
• 刊名：Neotropical Entomology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：45
• 期：2
• 页码：107-113
• 全文大小：556 KB
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• 作者单位：C E G Pinheiro (1)
  A V L Freitas (2)
  V C Campos (1)
  P J DeVries (3)
  C M Penz (3)
  
  1. Depto de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Univ de Brasília – UnB, 70910-900, Brasília, DF, Brasil
  2. Depto de Biologia Animal and Museu de Zoologia, Univ Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil
  3. Dept of Biological Sciences, Univ of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA
  
• 刊物主题：Entomology; Agriculture; Life Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1678-8052

文摘

Birds are able to recognize and learn to avoid attacking unpalatable, chemically defended butterflies after unpleasant experiences with them. It has also been suggested that birds learn to avoid prey that are efficient at escaping. This, however, remains poorly documented. Here, we argue that butterflies may utilize a variety of escape tactics against insectivorous birds and review evidence that birds avoid attacking butterflies that are hard to catch. We suggest that signaling difficulty of capture to predators is a widespread phenomenon in butterflies, and this ability may not be limited to palatable butterflies. The possibility that both palatable and unpalatable species signal difficulty of capture has not been fully explored, but helps explain the existence of aposematic coloration and escape mimicry in butterflies lacking defensive chemicals. This possibility may also change the role that putative Müllerian and Batesian mimics play in a variety of classical mimicry rings, thus opening new perspectives in the evolution of mimicry in butterflies.