Meaning of pierine | Babel Free

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A butterfly of the family Pieridae.

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“Rather than reviewing the physics and physiology of butterfly thermoregulation here, I will simply note that thermoregulatory advantage is not yet proven for the seasonal phenotypes of any pierine, though strongly suspected; increased survivorship […]”

“Any hope that the pierines would help to define “the level at which r-K phenomena should be sought has been dashed: apparently species groups (or subgenera, or splitters' genera) are r- or K-selected in the holarctic, whereas in Tatochila the same amount of differentiation is found among populations in a complex in which the process of speciation has not yet been completed.”

“For Africa, Marshall has collected some fortysix observations of which almost half are concerned with Pierines.”

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