PUPATION SITE PREFERENCE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY CUED PUPAL COLOR DIMORPHISM IN THE SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY PAPILIO POLYXENES FABR (LEPIDOPTERA, PAPILIONIDAE)
Wn. Hazel et Da. West, PUPATION SITE PREFERENCE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY CUED PUPAL COLOR DIMORPHISM IN THE SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY PAPILIO POLYXENES FABR (LEPIDOPTERA, PAPILIONIDAE), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 57(1), 1996, pp. 81-87
Environmentally cued polymorphisms are hypothesized to evolve when the
environment is coarse-grained and different genotypes are unable to c
hoose the habitats in which they are most fit. In Papilio polyxenes, w
hich has an environmentally cued pupal colour dimorphism, there is gen
etic variation in both tendency to produce brown or green pupae and pr
eference for green- or brown-inducing pupation sites, but the two trai
ts are not correlated.