The first record of a homeotic wing pattern aberration in an Australian butterfly from a specimen of Papilio aegeus ormenus Guérin-Méneville, 1830 (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)

By

Wood, Graham A.
Nielsen, John E

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-11-6

Original Publication

Nota lepidopterologica

Volume

41

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

215--218

Subjects

imaginal buds

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bonn,

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/nl.41.11140

 

Abstract

A specimen ofPapilioaegeusormenuswith a forewing/hindwing wing pattern homeosis is described from Mer Island, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. This represents the first record of a butterfly specimen with wing pattern homeosis from Australia.