Repeated observations of interspecific „mating“ between males of the arctiid moth Amata phegea and females of the burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae (Lepidoptera: Zyganeidae and Arctiidae)

0337022 - BC 2010 DE eng J - Journal Article
Novotný, David - Beneš, Jiří - Konvička, M.
Repeated observations of interspecific „mating“ between males of the arctiid moth Amata phegea and females of the burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae (Lepidoptera: Zyganeidae and Arctiidae).
Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo. Roč. 30, 1/2 (2009), s. 81-82. ISSN 0723-9912
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC06073
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50070508
Keywords : visual discrimination * interspecific copulation * mate locating behaviour
Subject RIV: EB - Genetics ; Molecular Biology

Short paper reporting two observations of attempted mating between a zygaenid moth females and arctiid moth males. We recorded 68 species of butterflies, representing almost a half of extant Czech butterfly fauna, from its 25 hectares in 2004-2007.
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