[leps-talk] MALE x FEMALE emergence

Jorge Bizarro bizarro at bio.ufpr.br
Sat May 25 08:24:35 EDT 2002


How!

Thanks for the information. I was completely unaware of gregarious
Lycaenidae... well, if one thinks that for many of them the lyfe cycle is
totatlly unknown..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [leps-talk] MALE x FEMALE emergence


> I once raised *Eumaeus toxeus* on *Dioon edule*. The larvae were
gregarious
> in all instars as they fed on cut leaflets. The eggs are laid in a mass on
> the cycad in the wild, or in a mass in the envelope. First instar larvae
> were not interested in feeding until presented with cut leaflets.
> .................Chris Durden
>
> At 03:22 PM 5/24/2002 -0300, you wrote:
> >Yes, I agree; indeed , my question was on the oddity of all the
gregarious
> >species that I was able to rear, in diferent families, from egg to pupa
> >(Actinotes run away from each other after 5 th instar) presenting female
> >emergence first. I confess they were not too many. So it would be
> >interesting to know of others in this condition, to see how far the
> >phenomenon is spead out among Lepidoptera; for instance:
> >
> >Asterocampa spp.
> >Eucheira socialis
> >Baronia brevicornis
> >Thaumatopeia sp, (Pine processionary)
> >Dione sp. (Heliconian)
> >Euphydryas spp.
> >
> >Besides: is anyone aware of gregarious Lycaenidae... I can't remember a
> >single one, but there are a few in Riodinidae (or Riodininae?).
> >
> >If there isn't a single gregarious species of Lycaenidae, that would be
> >something really remarkable, for some reason.
> >
> >Jorge
>
>
>
>
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