A. Monteiro et al., THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EYESPOT SHAPE AND WING SHAPE IN THE BUTTERFLY BICYCLUS-ANYNANA - A GENETIC AND MORPHOMETRICAL APPROACH, Journal of evolutionary biology, 10(5), 1997, pp. 787-802
The African butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, normally possesses circular e
yespots on its wings. Artificial selection lines, which express ellips
oidal eyespots on the dorsal surface of the forewing, were used to inv
estigate correlated changes in wing shape. Morphometric analysis of li
near wing measurements and wing scale counts provided evidence that ey
espot shape was correlated with localised shape changes in the corresp
onding wing-cell, with overall shape changes in the vying, and with th
e density/arrangement of scales around the eyespot area.