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Daily Activity Patterns of Two Co-Occurring Tropical Satyrine Butterflies
Adult males and females of many insect species are expected to adjust their daily activity pattern in order to avoid stressful climatic conditions and increase the chances to encounter sexual partners. Using scan sampling methods associated with focal individual observations it was found that two sa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20050774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.009.5401 |
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author | Enrique Cardoso Peixoto, Paulo Benson, Woodruff W. |
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description | Adult males and females of many insect species are expected to adjust their daily activity pattern in order to avoid stressful climatic conditions and increase the chances to encounter sexual partners. Using scan sampling methods associated with focal individual observations it was found that two satyrine butterflies of similar size and morphology, Hermeuptychia hermes (Fabricius) (Leptidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Paryphthimoides phronius (Godart), show completely different daily activity patterns on forest edges in southeastern Brazil. Hermeuptychia hermes presents one abundance peak in the morning and another in the late afternoon, while P. phronius abundance peaks in the mid-day, remaining stable until 1700 h. This difference is probably due to the occurrence of territorial behavior in the later species. The beginning of territorial defense by P. phronius males coincided with the time of new-born female activity. However, newly hatched females were not sexually receptive. The afternoon territoriality in male P. phronius may be in part related to mate acquisition. However, why the abundance of H. hermes decreases when the abundance of P. phronius increases is less clear. |
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spelling | pubmed-30119032011-09-01 Daily Activity Patterns of Two Co-Occurring Tropical Satyrine Butterflies Enrique Cardoso Peixoto, Paulo Benson, Woodruff W. J Insect Sci Article Adult males and females of many insect species are expected to adjust their daily activity pattern in order to avoid stressful climatic conditions and increase the chances to encounter sexual partners. Using scan sampling methods associated with focal individual observations it was found that two satyrine butterflies of similar size and morphology, Hermeuptychia hermes (Fabricius) (Leptidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Paryphthimoides phronius (Godart), show completely different daily activity patterns on forest edges in southeastern Brazil. Hermeuptychia hermes presents one abundance peak in the morning and another in the late afternoon, while P. phronius abundance peaks in the mid-day, remaining stable until 1700 h. This difference is probably due to the occurrence of territorial behavior in the later species. The beginning of territorial defense by P. phronius males coincided with the time of new-born female activity. However, newly hatched females were not sexually receptive. The afternoon territoriality in male P. phronius may be in part related to mate acquisition. However, why the abundance of H. hermes decreases when the abundance of P. phronius increases is less clear. University of Wisconsin Library 2009-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3011903/ /pubmed/20050774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.009.5401 Text en © 2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Enrique Cardoso Peixoto, Paulo Benson, Woodruff W. Daily Activity Patterns of Two Co-Occurring Tropical Satyrine Butterflies |
title | Daily Activity Patterns of Two Co-Occurring Tropical Satyrine Butterflies |
title_full | Daily Activity Patterns of Two Co-Occurring Tropical Satyrine Butterflies |
title_fullStr | Daily Activity Patterns of Two Co-Occurring Tropical Satyrine Butterflies |
title_full_unstemmed | Daily Activity Patterns of Two Co-Occurring Tropical Satyrine Butterflies |
title_short | Daily Activity Patterns of Two Co-Occurring Tropical Satyrine Butterflies |
title_sort | daily activity patterns of two co-occurring tropical satyrine butterflies |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20050774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.009.5401 |
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