The Red-spotted Purple butterfly (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) among most beautiful of 165 species of butterflys in South Carolina.

Wesley K. Savage, Sean P. Mullen, A Single Origin of Batesian Mimicry among Hybridizing Populations of Admiral Butterflies (Limenitis arthemis) Rejects an Evolutionary Reversion to the Ancestral ...

Batesian mimics are predicted to lose their fitness advantage not only in the absence of an unpalatable model, but also when the mimic becomes relatively abundant. The phenotypic hybrid zone between ...