Simple Summary The larvae of many butterflies and moths show various body colors within
a species. We studied the possible effect of the host plant color on the plastic larval body …

Although some nymphalid butterflies have been intensively used to study mechanisms of the
colour pattern formation on butterfly wings, lycaenid butterflies are equally attractive, having …

Polymorphism in body colour of mature larvae in'Zizina labradus'(Godart) ranging from white
to red, green and dark purple became apparent upon rearing larva on an artificial diet. In …

Pupae of the painted lady butterfly Vanessa cardui exhibit pupal color polyphenism
consisting of white, dark and intermediate types. We investigated environmental factors …

We tested the effect of larval density on pupal colour plasticity in the butterfly Mycalesis
mineus. Pupal colour of this species is known to be a plastic phenotype, being either brown …

The pale grass blue butterfly has been used to assess the biological effects of the
Fukushima nuclear accident. Zizeeria and Zizina are two closely related genera of grass …

The nymphalid groundplan has been proposed to explain diverse butterfly wing color
patterns. In this model, each symmetry system is composed of a core element and a pair of …

The small copper butterfly, Lycaena phlaeas daimio, has pupal beige/black polymorphism,
the development of which is found to be controlled in an apparent association with the …

Utetheisa ornatrix exhibits geographic and intrapopulational variability in wing pattern. Here,
evidence is presented that temperature-dependent phenotypic plasticity exists in north …

Several recent studies have focused on factors governing external coloration in lepidopteran
larvae (eg, Goulson, 1994; Gunn, 1998; Hazel, 2002; Cotter et al., 2004). For example, the …