Regular ArticleEvidence for Batesian mimicry in a butterfly-pollinated orchid
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Colour similarity to flowering neighbours promotes pollinator visits, pollen receipt and maternal fitness
2022, South African Journal of BotanyCitation Excerpt :Fitness increases may be driven by greater pollinator visitation and seed set when similar neighbours help attract or maintain local pollinators (Moeller, 2004; Coetzee et al., 2021). Overlap in floral colour strongly impacts pollinator foraging when visitors are colour constant (Hill et al., 1997; Jones and Reithel, 2001), which increases pollinator movements between similar co-flowering species (Chittka et al., 1997; de Jager et al., 2016; de Jager et al., 2011; Johnson, 1994; Johnson et al., 2003). Consequently, flower colour similarity may result in pollinators perceiving different species to be the same, as suggested by indiscriminate pollinator movement between plant species during foraging (Chittka et al., 1997; Schemske, 1981).
Butterfly pollination of Bonatea cassidea (Orchidaceae): Solving a puzzle from the Darwin era
2019, South African Journal of BotanyCitation Excerpt :Since Lepidoptera have most of their bodies covered with scales, only a few body parts are considered sufficiently suitable (i.e. smooth) to carry orchid pollinaria (Johnson and Edwards, 2000). Therefore, in butterfly-pollinated species, pollinaria are usually attached to areas free of scales, such as the legs (Ridley, 1896; Johnson and Bond, 1994; Zhang et al., 2010), eyes (Robertson and Wyatt, 1990; Pedron et al., 2012), and proboscis of the insect (Johnson, 1994; Pansarin and Amaral, 2008; Zhang et al., 2010; Aguiar et al., 2012). The terrestrial orchid genus Bonatea Willd. (
Mimicry and Deception in Pollination
2017, Advances in Botanical ResearchCitation Excerpt :This also holds for deceptive flowers displaying a complex colour pattern referring to multiple-model species (Ma et al., 2015). A particular aspect of flower mimicry is the frequency of model species in relation to the frequency of mimic species (Anderson & Johnson, 2006; Bierzychudek, 1981; Dafni & Ivri, 1981; Johnson, 1994, 2000). Many food-deceptive plants show discrete or continuous floral polymorphism within their populations.
Mimicry in plants
2016, Current BiologyFloral features, pollination biology, and breeding system of Comparettia coccinea (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae)
2015, Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of PlantsCitation Excerpt :Psychophilous orchids offer the butterflies either nectar or are pollinated by food deception (e.g., van der Pijl and Dodson, 1966; Pansarin and Amaral, 2008b; Fuhro et al., 2010; Pansarin and Ferreira, 2015). Butterfly pollination occurs in many unrelated genera within the huge subfamily Orchidoideae (van der Pijl and Dodson, 1966; Robertson and Wyatt, 1990; Johnson, 1994; van der Cingel, 1995; Pedron et al., 2012; Pansarin and Ferreira, 2015). In Epidendroideae, this pollination syndrome was also reported in several unrelated groups, such as Oeceoclades (Aguiar et al., 2012) and some sections of the speciose genus Epidendrum (e.g., Pansarin, 2003; Pansarin and Amaral, 2008b; Fuhro et al., 2010).