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CHARACTERS OF PROTECTION AND DEFENCE IN INSECTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. R. Grote
A. R. Grote
Affiliation:
Bremen, Germany.
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A few years since I described a colony of Spanner caterpillars (Geometridœ) belonging to an undeterminded species, and the description appeared afterwards in this journal. These larvæ were remarkable for their mimicry, in color and shape and attitude, of dead leaves. There could be no question that they belonged to the category of protective appearance, to which so many green and brown tinted larvæ belong, which share these “cosmical color.s”

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 20 , Issue 8 , August 1888 , pp. 154 - 156
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1888

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