Successful courtship of the butterfly H. erato phyllis(17.0MB, 00:00:22) | ||
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Successful courtship of the butterfly H. erato phyllis(17.0MB, 00:00:22) | ||
| species Heliconius erato phyllis Key Words | |
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Animalia >Arthropoda >Insecta >Lepidoptera >Nymphalidae >Heliconius >
This is a courtship sequence of intermediate complexity. The male approaches an alighted female, executes "hovering" in flight and "androconia exposition" alighted, just before coupling the genitalia. In other cases, a "flight pursuit" can also occurs.
Below is the abstract from the article containing this video:
Courtship behavior of Heliconius erato phyllis (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) towards virgin and mated females: conflict between attraction and repulsion signals?
Andre Luis Klein Journal of Ethology doi:10.1007/s10164-010-0209-1
Previous observations of Heliconius erato phyllis females being intensively courted a few days after mating contradict the proposal of sexual repulsion caused by a male-transferred antiaphrodisiac. Furthermore, data on courtship in Heliconius butterflies are almost absent from the literature. In this work we aim to describe the courtship behavior of H. erato phyllis and to compare it towards virgin and mated females. Sexual interactions using both kinds of females were observed and filmed in seminatural conditions for subsequent analysis and quantification. Courtship of virgin and mated females differed qualitatively and quantitatively, but the results do not agree with the proposal of sexual repulsion. The differences found indicate that the courtship sequence towards mated females is interrupted in the transition that would lead to the behavior immediately prior to copulation, in such a way that the male continues courting the female in an intermediate phase. Preliminary tests even showed that older females, virgin or not, are much less courted by males. We suggest that there is a trade-off between an attraction pheromone, important for males to locate female pupae, and the male-transferred antiaphrodisiac,so that young, mated females may have both signals active. http://www.momo-p.com/showdetail-e.php?movieid=momo090807he01a.
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