Overview
- Explores the versatility of butterfly and moth wings, focusing on their function and morphology
- Presents various aspects of the development of butterfly and moth wings
- Adopts a diverse approach using morphology, physiology, physics, chemistry, and mathematical models
Part of the book series: Entomology Monographs (ENTMON)
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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Butterfly and Moth Wings
Book Subtitle: Functional Morphology of the Wings with Scales
Authors: Akihiro Yoshida
Series Title: Entomology Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9711-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-9710-3Published: 03 January 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-9713-4Published: 04 January 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-9711-0Published: 02 January 2025
Series ISSN: 2522-526X
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5278
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 196
Number of Illustrations: 137 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Zoology, Animal Physiology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics