Squeaking caterpillars: independent evolution of sonic defense in wild silkmoths

Ecology. 2020 Oct;101(10):e03112. doi: 10.1002/ecy.3112. Epub 2020 Jul 23.

¹ Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan.
² Department of Forest Entomology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan.
³ Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, 7538511, Japan.
⁴ Division of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, 3-15-1 Tokita, Ueda, Nagano, 386-8567, Japan.

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Keywords: Lepidoptera; Saturniidae; abdominal spiracles; acoustic aposematism; anti-predator defenses; startle displays.

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