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G. A. MAZOKHIN-PORSHNYAKOV1, examining the optical characters of insect wings in connexion with the visual perception of insects, and taking photographs using ultra-violet rays, found that the smooth, yellow surface of the Gonepteryx rhamni wing has a real pattern which is invisible to the human eye. He also found that such a pattern in the full sense is presented in males only. The wing of the female absorbs ultra-violet rays by the entire surface and then looks dark. Mazokhin-Porshnyakov supposed that this hidden pattern may be considered as a character of taxonomic value. This assumption has been partly supported by my work2.
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NEKRUTENKO, Y. ’Gynandromorphic Effect‘ and the Optical Nature of Hidden Wing-pattern in Gonepteryx rhamni L. (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Nature 205, 417–418 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205417a0
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