Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/taylor-francis/exigences-trophiques-et-volution-dans-les-genres-euphydryas-et-ORy0E09e8l
References
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- © 1982 Société entomologique de France
- ISSN
- 2168-6351
- eISSN
- 0037-9271
- DOI
- 10.1080/21686351.1982.12278319
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Summary Researches effected by the author in southern France and the results achieved by the experimental inversion of hostplants show that the E. aurinia subspecies are monophagous. Hibridization, leading to the sterility of the imagoes or to the death of the larvae if the food-plants are changed, proves the genotypic character of those trophic demands and show that the E. aurinia subspecies may be in that respect identified with trophic ecotypes. Moreover E. aurinia hostplants as well as the hostplants of other species of the Euphydryas and Melitaea genus sensu lato belong to the same evolutive phylum in Emberger's classification of vascular plants. The evolutive levels reached by E. aurinia and O. editha in particular are compared and the conclusion shows that the trophic demands of the larvae must undoubtedly play a fundamental part in the ecology and speciation of those taxons.
Journal
Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S ) – Taylor & Francis
Published: Apr 30, 1982
Keywords: Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae; Euphydryas; Melitaea; Eurodryas aurinia; planteshôtes; trophisme; spéciation; évolution