Using our new rubber boots, bought that morning in Tena in the market for $11, we splash across the creek and get stunning shots of Agrias (now Prepona) claudina that is very cooperative, and my first Clito zelotes, a black and white spreadwing skipper, plus a number of other forest ...
especially larvae and adults, serving diverse and crucial functions in sexual selection, predator avoidance, and thermoregulation [1]. Like other insects, the metabolites from three main pigmentation pathways (i.e., tyrosine-derived melanin, tryptophan-derived ommochromes and guanine...