Abstract: Mimicry is very common for insects, displayed in various stages of eggs, nymphs, larvae, pupae or adults. Since eye-to-eye has a powerful impact on vertebrates, eyespots become an important anti-predation strategy for diurnal insects and other animals. In today's ecosystems, eyespots are still one of important self-defense methods for insects, especially for extant Lepidoptera. There are many documented examples of camouflage by various fossil insects of Odonata, Orthoptera, Homoptera, Neuroptera and Mecoptera from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota and the Middle Jurassic Yanliao Biota in the Northeastern China. Some fossil insects have dark spots and markings with various sizes irregularly distributed on their wings. A typical mimicry system comprises three parties: mimic, model and dupe. To ensure that mimicry occurs, all three parties should, to some extent, co-exist in the same living ecosystem at the same time.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-03-15
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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