Oviposition by a lycaenid butterfly onto old host parts is adaptive to avoid interference by conspecific larvae

• Yukari Mochioka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Systems Ecology, Saga University, Saga, Japan

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• Motoaki Kinoshita,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Systems Ecology, Saga University, Saga, Japan

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• Makoto Tokuda

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tokudam@cc.saga-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Systems Ecology, Saga University, Saga, Japan, The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-0715

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