Studies on the Mating Behavior of the Pale Grass Blue, Zizeeria maha argia (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae) : I. Recognition of Conspecific Individuals by Flying Males

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• Preliminary observations and experimental analyses were made on the mating behavior of the pale grass blue, Zizeeria maha argia. Adult emergence took place from about 18 : 00 to 11 : 00 and flight behavi8or of adult buterflies could be seen from 8 : 00 to 18 : 00. Males flying in search of females approached any male or female resting with wings closed. Field experiments with a variety of models revealed that males were generally attracted not only by wing-closed females but also by wing-closed males. Furthermore, males were also attracted by an undersurface model of the same size as the pale grass blue. In this experiment attraction of the male to the wing undersurface was observed regardless of the model shape, although the model size was of primary importance. Spectroscopic examination showed that the reflectivity pattern of the wing undresuface in both sexes was approximately similar. It therefore seemed that the sexual behavior of the flying males was first of all released by the color of the wing undersurface, and not of the uppersurface. Thus, male adults discover conspecifric individuals by means of recognizing the color of the wing undersurface.

• 日本応用動物昆虫学会の論文
• 1976-12-25

著者

• Suzuki Yoshito

  Institute Of Biological Control Faculty Of Agriculture Kyushu University

• UNNO Kazuo

  Laboratory of Biology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

• Wago Haruhisa

  (present Address)laboratory Of Bacteriology Saitama Medical College

• Unno Kazuo

  Laboratory Of Biology Tokyo University Of Agriculture And Technology

• 和合 治久

  (Present address)Laboratory of Bacteriology, Saitama Medical College

• 海野 和男

  Laboratory of Biology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

• 鈴木 芳人

  Institute of Biological Control, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

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