Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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Page 79
... tegmina - an arrangement which finds its parallel in the Bufonid frog Hylodes longirostris , from Ecuador , in the Brevicipitid Caluella brooksii , and in the Polypedatid tree - frog Rhacophorus fasciatus , from Sarawak. METHODS BY WHICH ...
... tegmina - an arrangement which finds its parallel in the Bufonid frog Hylodes longirostris , from Ecuador , in the Brevicipitid Caluella brooksii , and in the Polypedatid tree - frog Rhacophorus fasciatus , from Sarawak. METHODS BY WHICH ...
Page 378
... tegmina in the resting insect , but conspicuously exposed in flight - an arrangement which occurs , for instance , in the genus Mictis ( Coreida ) and in Nepa and Laccotrephes ( Nepida ) . Members of the latter family - the water ...
... tegmina in the resting insect , but conspicuously exposed in flight - an arrangement which occurs , for instance , in the genus Mictis ( Coreida ) and in Nepa and Laccotrephes ( Nepida ) . Members of the latter family - the water ...
Page 380
... tegmina ; and by the flightless Eremiaphila braueri , where both wings and tegmina are reduced in size and purely sematic in function . Turning now to an entirely different group of animals , we find an analogous arrangement in Oriental ...
... tegmina ; and by the flightless Eremiaphila braueri , where both wings and tegmina are reduced in size and purely sematic in function . Turning now to an entirely different group of animals , we find an analogous arrangement in Oriental ...
Contents
SEASONAL DIMORPHISM | 17 |
MORPHOLOGICAL COLOUR | 24 |
OBLITERATIVE SHADING | 35 |
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