First evidence for an aposematic function of a very common color pattern in small insects

• Rebeca Mora-Castro ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rebeca.mora@ucr.ac.cr

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Biología Celular y Molecular, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Escuela de Biología, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-3839

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• Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Escuela de Estadística, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7703-3578

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• Marcela Hernández-Jiménez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Escuela de Física, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Mauricio Fernández Otárola,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Escuela de Biología, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET), University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Michael Méndez-Rivera,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Contaminación Ambiental (CICA), University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Didier Ramírez-Morales,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Contaminación Ambiental (CICA), University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Carlos E. Rodríguez-Rodríguez,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Contaminación Ambiental (CICA), University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6923-7258

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• Andrés Durán-Rodríguez,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Protolab, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Paul E. Hanson

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Biología, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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