ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2015
Spectrally tuned structural and pigmentary coloration of birdwing butterfly wing scales.
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- Orientation-Dependent Reflection of Structurally Coloured Butterflies.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Infrared optical and thermal properties of microstructures in butterfly wings.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Bogong Moths Are Well Camouflaged by Effectively Decolourized Wing Scales.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Humidity-dependent colour change in the green forester moth,Biology letters · 2019Article
- Thin-film structural coloration from simple fused scales in moths.Interface focus · 2019Article
- Fifty shades of white: how white feather brightness differs among species.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2018Article
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- Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies combine a restricted set of pigmentary and structural coloration mechanisms.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- Changes in structural and pigmentary colours in response to cold stress in Polyommatus icarus butterflies.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Functional optics of glossy buttercup flowers.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
- Colour formation on the wings of the butterfly Hypolimnas salmacis by scale stacking.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Unique wing scale photonics of male Rajah Brooke's birdwing butterflies.Frontiers in zoology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The colourful wing patterns of butterflies play an important role for enhancing fitness; for instance, by providing camouflage, for interspecific mate recognition, or for aposematic display. Closely related butterfly species can have dramatically different wing patterns. The phenomenon is assumed to be caused by ecological processes with changing conditions, e.g. in the environment, and also by sexual selection. Here, we investigate the birdwing butterflies, Ornithoptera, the largest butterflies of the world, together forming a small genus in the butterfly family Papilionidae. The wings of these butterflies are marked by strongly coloured patches. The colours are caused by specially structured wing scales, which act as a chirped multilayer reflector, but the scales also contain papiliochrome pigments, which act as a spectral filter. The combined structural and pigmentary effects tune the coloration of the wing scales. The tuned colours are presumably important for mate recognition and signalling. By applying electron microscopy, (micro-)spectrophotometry and scatterometry we found that the various mechanisms of scale coloration of the different birdwing species strongly correlate with the taxonomical distribution of Ornithoptera species.
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