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BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES

Nature volume 151, page 173 (1943)Cite this article

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THE extraordinary mimetic resemblances which exist between certain apparently edible species of insects and other distasteful species, which are found in the same neighbourhood, reach their highest development in the Rhopalocera or butterflies. The resemblances are purely external and frequently confined to the upper surfaces of the wings only. They are obviously meant to deceive an eye.

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WILLIAMS, C. BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES. Nature 151, 173 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151173a0

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