Butterfly and Moth Wings

Functional Morphology of the Wings with Scales
2025
ISBN: 978-981-97-9710-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 519 g

Reihe: Entomology Monographs

This book explores the various functions of butterfly and moth wings. Lepidoptera wings are covered with variously colored scales and exhibit a wide variety of color patterns, with some functioning as significant signals in behavior. They are also the flight organs, as the wings of the other insects are. Although research on Lepidopteran wings has predominantly focused on the color patterns and flight performance, they have many other functions that contribute to their lives.

Chapters in this book examine airflow regulation, behavioral signal sending, friction reduction, sensory signal reception, pheromone secretion, antireflection, and high hydrophobicity. Utilizing the perspectives from biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics, the author explores the functions, structures, construction, and development of these functional wings. Since many of the wing functions are attributed to or assisted by the scale functions, an understanding of the scale functions is necessary to understand the wing functions. The book includes chapters on the marginal scale morphology and function of the small moth wing, as well as the development of the wing with scales. Programmed cell death, which plays a crucial role in the development of the functional wing, is also described.

The extensive descriptions offer new insights into Lepidoptera wings and may inspire ingenious devices from a physics and engineering perspective. In particular, the physiological approach to the wing mechanoreception in this book is the first for butterfly and moth wings to thoroughly investigate their intricate mechanisms.

With numerous figures to aid the understanding of readers, the book will appeal to researchers and graduate students interested in entomology, biomimetics and physics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yoshida, Akihiro

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1.Introduction:Morphology and Development of the Wing with Scales,- Chapter 2.Scale Arrangement in the Wing:Scale Rows around the Wing, High Scale Density near the Leading Edge,and a Double Layer of Scales.- Chapter 3.Androconial Scales and the Sex Pheromone of the Pieris Male Wing:Secretory Cells in the Pupal Wing.-Chapter 4.Androconial Scales and the Sex Pheromone of the Danaini Male Wing: Secretory Cells in the Adult Wing.-Chapter 5.Branched Filamentary Scales along the Wing Margin of the Small Moth: Coherent Scale Array in Flight and Compact Scale Bundle at Rest.-Chapter 6.Sensory Bristles and Sensory Scales along the Wing Margin: Morphology, Modality, Arrangement, and Function.-Chapter 7.Highly Transparent Wing without Scales: A Nanosized Protuberance Array Overlaying the Wing Surface.-Chapter 8.Programmed Scale Detachment from the Wing: Formation of the Highly Transparent Wing.-Chapter 9.Concluding Remarks: Wing Structure Involved in Multiple Functions.

Über Autor(innen)

Akihiro Yoshida is a visiting researcher at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Japan. He studied physical chemistry in his undergraduate at Kyoto University. He studied biology in his graduate at Kyushu University, and received PD in molecular mechanism of muscular contraction (1977). From 1979, he served as an assistant professor at Sophia University, where he focused on the development of lepidopteran wings until 1992. Following this, he worked as a senior researcher at JT Biohistory Research Hall, where he investigated various aspects of lepidopteran wings, including morphology, physiology, development, and evolution.