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The first known riodinid 'cuckoo' butterfly reveals deep-time convergence and parallelism in ant social parasites

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Kaminski, Lucas A., Volkmann, Luis, Callaghan, Curtis J., Devries, Philip J., Vila, Roger (2020): The first known riodinid 'cuckoo' butterfly reveals deep-time convergence and parallelism in ant social parasites. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193: 860-879, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa150

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