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If the butterfly wing pattern mimics the broadbill's feathers then it would be a case of a Müllerian mimicry ring because both species have wings covered with thornlike patterns. In addition the broadbills are protected because of their large beaks and the butterfly because it is poisonous. [ 1 ]
These moths have the upper wings crossed by a white belt and a metallic patterns coloration ranging from golden to violet. Males have brown hair on their heads, with very long antennae, 2–3 times as long as the forewing. They are diurnal and usually swarm around the tips of branches with undulating flights. Adults are on wing in May and June.
The purple-crowned fairywren is a small, sexually dimorphic, bird measuring approximately 14 cm (5.5 in) in length, with a wing-span of approximately 16 cm (6.3 in) and weighing only 9–13 g (0.32–0.46 oz).
There are three recognised subspecies.Both black-plumaged forms have been called the black-and-white fairywren and black-and-white wren.. M. l. leucopterus - Dumont, 1824 Range of the nominate subspecies is restricted to Dirk Hartog Island, off the western coast of Australia, and nuptial males display black-and-white plumage. [17]
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Mastotermes darwiniensis or Darwin termite, is an extant species of Australian insect showing archedictyon wing venation.. Archedictyon (from Greek Arche meaning first, original, ancient, primitive, or most basic [1] and dictyo-meaning net or netlike, [2] plural "archedictya") is a name given to a hypothetical scheme of wing venation proposed for the common ancestor of all winged insects.
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