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ZOOLOGIA
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA ZOOLOGIA, UNIV FEDERAL PARANA
DOI: 10.3897/zoologia.36.e32053
Keywords
Camouflage; caterpillar; Euptychiina; Lepidoptera
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- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) [001]
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [FAPESP 2016/15873-8]
- FAPESP (Biota-Fapesp) [2011/50225-3]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [302585/2011-7, 421248/2017-3]
- National Science Foundation [DEB-1256742]
- United States Agency for International Development - USAID/the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), under the PEER program [AID-OAA-A-11-00012]
- RedeLep 'Rede Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservacao de Lepidopteros' SISBIOTA-Brasil/CNPq [563332/2010-7]
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The present paper describes the immature stages of the Neotropical satyrine butterfly Euptychia mollina (Hubner, [1813]) from the Brazilian Amazon Forest. Eggs were laid singly on the under surface of the fronds of its host plant, Selaginella sp. (Bryophyta: Selaginellaceae). Larvae are solitary in all instars, presenting a color pattern and shape that make them cryptic on its host plant. The pupa is short, smooth and varies from rusty brown to green. Despite the lack of a close phylogenetic relationship, larvae of Euptychia are very similar to those of the paleotropical satyrines Ragadia and Acrophtalmia, suggesting that camouflage is likely to be one of the factors explaining the similarities among them.
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