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Mimicry and the Chrysomelidae

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Biology of Chrysomelidae

Part of the book series: Series Entomologica ((SENT,volume 42))

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The significance of similarities between organisms of the world has long fascinated man — presumably even prehistoric man, later early naturalists, and now experimental biologists, behaviorists, taxonomists, geneticists, etc. How great his preplexity when an observer first realizes that all in nature is not what it appears to be! Comparatively modern questions about such similarities of ‘different’ organisms and their environments were first raised by Bates in 1862 when he proposed his theory concerning mimicry among insects.

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Balsbaugh, E.U. (1988). Mimicry and the Chrysomelidae. In: Jolivet, P., Petitpierre, E., Hsiao, T.H. (eds) Biology of Chrysomelidae. Series Entomologica, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3105-3_16

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