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The extremely long-tongued Neotropical butterfly Eurybia lycisca (Riodinidae): Proboscis morphology and flower handling

Few species of true butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) have evolved a proboscis that greatly exceeds the length of the body. This study is the first to examine the morphology of an extremely long butterfly proboscis and to describe how it is used to obtain nectar from flowers with very deep co...

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Autores principales: Bauder, Julia A.S., Lieskonig, Nora R., Krenn, Harald W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science Ltd 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21115131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2010.11.002