Seasonal variation of the forewing in polyvoltine whites Pieris rapae L. and P. napi L. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in the forest-steppe zone of the Southern Urals

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• 作者：A. O. Shkurikhin ; T. S. Oslina
• 刊名：Russian Journal of Ecology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：47
• 期：3
• 页码：296-301
• 全文大小：492 KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Ecology
  Environment
  Russian Library of Science
  
• 出版者：MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica distributed exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media LLC.
• ISSN：1608-3334
• 卷排序：47

文摘

The seasonal variation of forewing size and shape was analyzed in adults of different seasonal generations of two polyvoltine species of whites: Pieris rapae and P. napi (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Particular morphological features of the forewing are characteristic of each seasonal generation of adults independently of their sex and species. Adults of the spring generations have the smallest wings, elongate and pointed. Adults of the summer generation have the largest, broad and rounded wings over the entire summer season. Adults of the autumn generation have wings similar in shape and size to those of the summer generation, but somewhat smaller and more elongate. Differences between seasonal generations in forewing shape are linked to differences between adults of each generation in adaptation to dispersal.Keywordswing shapePieridaeseasonal variationgeometric morphometrics