The photo shows, on the bottom three rows,
unpalatable butterfly model species in the family Danaidae (left) and palatable
mimetic forms of female Papilio dardanus (right), an African swallowtail
species. At top left is the Papilio dardanus male; at top
right is a non-mimetic, male-like female of the same species. The
polymorphic, female-limited Batesian mimicry was first described by Roland
Trimen (1869).
Constructed: 19 October 2001