Mimicry & Warning Colour

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Pictures and pages

• Camouflage in an African praying mantis
• Do birds eat butterflies?
• Francis Gilbert's hoverfly (Syrphidae) mimicry pages (including translated foreign publications)
• General information on Heliconius butterflies
• Mimicry in Dendrobates frogs in NE Peru
• Mimicry in rayed and postman Heliconius in NE Peru
• Polymorphic Batesian mimicry in African swallowtails (Papilio dardanus)
• Polymorphic Batesian mimicry in Asian swallowtails (Papilio memnon)
• "Tiger pattern" mimicry in the polymorphic butterfly Heliconius numata and Melinaea (Ithomiinae)
• The upland "tiger pattern" melanic mimicry in NE Peru

Papers

• Over 650 references on mimicry
• Beccaloni, George (1995). Studies on the Ecology and Evolution of Neotropical Ithomiine Butterflies (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae). PhD Thesis, University of London. (Figures of all species in ithomiine mimicry rings at Jatun Sacha, Ecuador are on pp. 60-75).
• "Diversity in mimicry: paradox or paradigm?" by M. Joron & J. Mallet (1998) TREE.
• "Evolution of diversity in warning colour and mimicry" by J. Mallet & M. Joron (1999) Ann Rev Ecol Syst.
• "Causes and consequences of a lack of coevolution in Müllerian mimicry. by J. Mallet (2001)  Evol. Ecol.
• See also: Recent publications

People

• Henry Walter Bates
• Fritz Muller
• E.B. Poulton
• Alfred Russel Wallace
• Johanna Mappes and the Aposematism group, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• Portraits

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Last updated: 3 Feb 2009