Browsing Department of Paleobiology by Author "Monteiro, Antónia"

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Attack risk for butterflies changes with eyespot number and size

Ho, Sebastian; Schachat, Sandra R.; Piel, William H.; Monteiro, Antónia (2016)

Butterfly eyespots are known to function in predator deflection and predator intimidation, but it is still unclear what factors cause eyespots to serve one function over the other. Both functions have been demonstrated in ...
The evolutionary convergence of mid-Mesozoic lacewings and Cenozoic butterflies

Labandeira, Conrad C.; Yang, Qiang; Santiago-Blay, Jorge A.; Hotton, Carol L.; Monteiro, Antónia; Wang, Yong-Jie; Goreva, Yulia S.; Shih, ChungKun; Siljeström, Sandra; Rose, Tim R.; Dilcher, David L.; Ren, Dong (2016)

Mid-Mesozoic kalligrammatid lacewings (Neuroptera) entered the fossil record 165 million years ago (Ma) and disappeared 45 Ma later. Extant papilionoid butterflies (Lepidoptera) probably originated 80–70 Ma, long after ...
Nymphalid eyespots are co-opted to novel wing locations following a similar pattern in independent lineages

Schachat, Sandra R.; Oliver, Jeffrey C.; Monteiro, Antónia (2015)

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