Comments on: Movers and Fakers http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/movers-and-fakers/ an "insect psychologist" contemplates human behaviour Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:31:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: qw88nb88 http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/movers-and-fakers/#comment-13007 qw88nb88 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:08:06 +0000 http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/movers-and-fakers/#comment-13007 Excellent question, Chris! The patterns of branching wing veination is pretty standardised in insects. Different orders of insects (Lepidoptera, the butterflies, moths and skippers; Coleoptera, the beetles; Odonata, the dragonflies and damselflies; et cetera) have distinctive patterns of wing veination. Even different insect families and genera have slightly different variations on wing vein patterns, which are used to help distinguish and identify them. Wikipedia has a nice page on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock-Needham_system" rel="nofollow">Comstock-Needham</a> system of pattern and naming of butterfly wing veins. andrea Excellent question, Chris!

The patterns of branching wing veination is pretty standardised in insects. Different orders of insects (Lepidoptera, the butterflies, moths and skippers; Coleoptera, the beetles; Odonata, the dragonflies and damselflies; et cetera) have distinctive patterns of wing veination. Even different insect families and genera have slightly different variations on wing vein patterns, which are used to help distinguish and identify them.

Wikipedia has a nice page on the Comstock-Needham system of pattern and naming of butterfly wing veins.
andrea

]]> By: Chris http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/movers-and-fakers/#comment-12982 Chris Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:50:14 +0000 http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/movers-and-fakers/#comment-12982 Is the pattern of branching lines in the wings particular to either (Splitting, but never joining from front to back in the Viceroy VS Joining again with other lines in the Monarch.) Or is that just how the two first butterflies happen to look? Is the pattern of branching lines in the wings particular to either (Splitting, but never joining from front to back in the Viceroy VS Joining again with other lines in the Monarch.) Or is that just how the two first butterflies happen to look?

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