Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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... Ants Food- animals Ants cent . Hyperolius bayoni IIO 104 94.5 3688 3547 96.2 Megalixalus fornasinii 360 67 18.6 1119 121 10.9 Or again , as regards Diptera , we find that fornasinii is essentially a fly- catcher - these insects being ...
... Ants Food- animals Ants cent . Hyperolius bayoni IIO 104 94.5 3688 3547 96.2 Megalixalus fornasinii 360 67 18.6 1119 121 10.9 Or again , as regards Diptera , we find that fornasinii is essentially a fly- catcher - these insects being ...
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... ant - mimic Myrmarachne , he states : ' Their habits are as ant - like as their structure . The worker ants , as a rule , move quietly through the foliage in a steady searching kind of way . When alarmed , however , they rush about ...
... ant - mimic Myrmarachne , he states : ' Their habits are as ant - like as their structure . The worker ants , as a rule , move quietly through the foliage in a steady searching kind of way . When alarmed , however , they rush about ...
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... ant- like appearance in two very different ways - as a nymph , and as an adult . The wingless nymph has a thin waist ... ants on a small bushy vetch , in Rhodesia ( 395 ) . This insect had the superfluous parts of the body coloured green ...
... ant- like appearance in two very different ways - as a nymph , and as an adult . The wingless nymph has a thin waist ... ants on a small bushy vetch , in Rhodesia ( 395 ) . This insect had the superfluous parts of the body coloured green ...
Contents
SEASONAL DIMORPHISM | 17 |
MORPHOLOGICAL COLOUR | 24 |
OBLITERATIVE SHADING | 35 |
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