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Deudorix epijarbas menesicle (midleg cleaning antenna) 玳灰蝶

觀察蝴蝶用中足清理觸角是理解蝴蝶種系關係 (phylogenetic relationship) 中的「同源特徵」,Kristensen 在 1976 年以此推論蛺蝶科與灰蝶科同屬單系群 (monophyletic group),亦即只有一個共同的祖先。

 

This Cornelian uses its midleg for cleaning antenna. Niels Peder Kristensen proposed that Nymphalidae and Lycaenidae are a monophyletic group upon this behavior in 1976.

 

別稱恆春小灰蝶

Deudorix epijarbas subsp. menesicles Fruhstorfer, 1911

 

鱗翅目 Order Lepidoptera

灰蝶科 Family Lycaenidae

玳灰蝶屬 Genus Deudorix

 

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