Open AccessPupation site preference and environmentally cued pupal colour dimorphism in the swallowtail butterfly Papilio polyxenes Fabr. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)
Author(s) -
Hazel Wade N.,
West David A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
biological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.906
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1095-8312
pISSN - 0024-4066
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1996.tb01698.x
Subject(s) - biology , pupa , lepidoptera genitalia , sexual dimorphism , nymphalidae , butterfly , preference , zoology , ecology , larva , economics , microeconomics
Environmentally cued polymorphisms are hypothesized to evolve when the environment is coarsegrained and different genotypes are unable to choose the habitats in which they are most fit. In Papilio polyxenes , which has an environmentally cued pupal colour dimorphism, there is genetic variation in both tendency to produce brown or green pupae and preference for green‐ or brown‐inducing pupation sites, but the two traits are not correlated.