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ctenuchid moth
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ctenuchid moth

insect
Also known as: Ctenuchinae
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  • Müllerian mimicry: butterflies
    mimicry
    / The selective advantage of warning

    …of the families Arctiidae and Ctenuchidae are foul-tasting but would be vulnerable to nocturnal predation by bats were it not for the emission of a series of high-pitched clicks, audible to bats, made when the moths hear the bats’ own ultrasonic navigational pulses. That the moth clicks actually do serve…

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    …of the families Arctiidae and Ctenuchidae are foul-tasting but would be vulnerable to nocturnal predation by bats were it not for the emission of a series of high-pitched clicks, audible to bats, made when the moths hear the bats’ own ultrasonic navigational pulses. That the moth clicks actually do serve…

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