Sentence examples for prominent eyespots from inspiring English sources

Forewing with prominent eyespots.

Forewing exceptionally large and broad, more than 50 mm long, approximately triangular or oviform in outline; usually bearing distinct, prominent eyespots positioned in the centers of the wing.

Most of these butterflies share a typical feature of the brown family: a prominent eyespot in the upper corner of the forewing.

Some lepidopteran species include large eyespots in their antipredation repertoire.

The dorsal side of the hindwing exhibits a large eyespot with double foci and a minor eyespot.

When the bird swooped down upon its prey, the team flashed one of five images on a computer monitor lying directly beneath the worm: an owl (a tit predator) with open eyes, an owl with its eyes closed, a butterfly with prominent owl-like eyespots on its wings, a butterfly with eyespots whose colors had been reversed, or a butterfly whose eyespots had been digitally removed.

Wing eyespot prominent; a central, dark pigmented area surrounded by a ring.

The current study focusses on the intimidation effects of large, conspicuous eyespots, and addresses how predator perception influences eyespot evolution.

A big ray with false black eyespots on each wing swam by at 340 feet.

Here we report that a butterfly, Lopinga achine, with broad-spectrum reflective white scales in its marginal eyespot pupils deceives a generalist avian predator, the blue tit, to attack the marginal eyespots, but only under particular conditions in our experiments, low light intensities with a prominent UV component.

Mating, they use eyespots, release pheromones, or extrude slime.