butterfly-plant coevolution

[Daniel Glaeske, MD]

Patrick Foley wrote:

> 
> 
> 2) Janz and Nylin reconstruct the ancestral host plant as perhaps
> Fabaceae or at least a Rosid. (This point was made by Scott 1986 also).
> What about all those primitive Papilionids that eat primitive
> Angiosperms?
> 
> 
> 
> 
IIRC, Baronia brevicornis feeds on Acacia, a close relative of the 
Fabaceae. 

Daniel Glaeske,
St. Victor, SK


 
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