A notodontid novelty: Theroa zethus caterpillars use behavior and anti-predator weaponry to disarm host plants

• David E. Dussourd ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dussourd@uca.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1182-1886

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• Madalyn Van Valkenburg,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3887-9933

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• Kalavathy Rajan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

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• David L. Wagner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

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