Adult butterfly feeding-nectar flower associations: constraints
of taxonomic affiliation, butterfly, and nectar flower
morphology Tiple, Ashish D.; Khurad, Arun M.; Dennis, Roger
L.H.. 2009 Adult butterfly feeding-nectar flower associations:
constraints of taxonomic affiliation, butterfly, and nectar
flower morphology. Journal of Natural History, 43 (13-14).
855-884. 10.1080/00222930802610568Full text not available from
this repository. Butterfly-flower morphological
interrelationships were investigated for 108 butterfly species
and 20 plants at Nagpur, India. Distinct clusters of higher taxa
(families) are disclosed for butterfly morphology and
significant morphological and taxonomic associations occur in
nectar exploitation. Flower corolla depth generally restricts
exploitation by butterflies in relation to proboscis length and
butterflies with high wing load indices bias their feeding to
plants with massed flowers. However, important exceptions
emerge; also, a substantial number of butterflies feed on plan