Evolutionary BiologyFunctional EcologyPeer-reviewed
Clearwing butterflies challenge the thermal melanism hypothesis
Violaine Ossola, Fabien Pottier, Charline Pinna…·Marianne Élias
The paper challenges the thermal melanism hypothesis by showing that transparent wings in Ithomiini butterflies are less efficient at absorbing light and heat, and that transparency increases with altitude, contrary to the hypothesis prediction.