supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32325009,32170420);the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences,and the State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research to WZ and grants from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2023M730082,BX20230026)to SW.
Kallima butterflies are famous for their leaf-mimicking wing patterns.Yet the characterization of Kallima species is still under debate owing to their high phenotypic similarity.With the release of the K.inachus refer...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[No.31702072];the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province[BK20210159];the Jiangsu Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Fund[CX(20)3184];the Open Foundation of Key LaboratoryofUrban Agriculture,Ministryof Agriculture and Rural Areas[UA201906].
The radiative cooling of butterfly wing scales hierarchy has great value in understanding how poikilotherms adapt to the environment and developing bionic ma-terials.However,it remains unclear what the cooling system ...
funding by the research program of the Universidad del Azuay 2018-2019,2019-2020;by the NCN grant Harmonia-10 2018/30/M/NZ8/00293
Immature stages of Lymanopoda caracara Pyrcz,Willmott&Hall,an endemic butterfly from the paramo life zone in the Andes of Ecuador,are described and compared with those of L.schmidti Adams from Colombia.Larval morpholo...
Sexual dimorphism is a widespread phenomenon in Lepidoptera.It is reflected in differences in life history,behavior and morphology.Analyses of differences in behavior are mostly difficult and time-consuming,especially...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31750002);the Special Fiscal Funds of Shaanxi Province(2013-19);the Shaanxi Province Science and Technology Research and Development Project(2013k14-01-02);the Pilot Project of Standardized Curation,Data Integration and Resource Sharing of Zoological Collections(2005DKA21402),Ministry of Science and Technology of China
Chinese species of the genus Polyura Billberg are revised.Ten species,including a new species,Polyura eleganta sp.nov.from Gansu Province,are described and illustrated.A key to the Chinese species is provided.
Sex ratio distortion in the tropical butterfly Acraea encedana is caused by infection with a male-killing bacterium of the genus Wolbachia. Previous research on this species has reported extreme female bias, high bact...
supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China (41172004,40871034);partially by the Provincial Key Projects of Natural Science Foundation,Colleges of Anhui Province (KJ2010A142)
The complete mitochondrial genome of Apatura ilia (GenBank accession no. JF437925) was determined as a circular DNA molecule of 15 242 bp, with common genes of 13 putative proteins, 2 rRNAs, and 22 tRNAs and of the ...