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Moth caterpillar solicits for homopteran honeydew

A life-history in which an organism depends on ants is called myrmecophily. Among Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), many species of lycaenid butterflies are known to show myrmecophily at the larval stage. Descriptions of myrmecophily among moth species, however, are very few and fragmentary. Here...

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Autores principales: Komatsu, Takashi, Itino, Takao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24473133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03922