"1210-5759" . "[11D85826D217]" . . . . . "True bugs are generally considered to be well protected against bird predation. Sympatric species that have similar warning coloration are supposed to form a functional M\u00FCllerian mimetic complex avoided by avian predators. We have tested whether these assumptions hold true for four species of European red-and-black heteropterans: Pyrrhocoris apterus, Lygaeus equestris, Spilostethus saxatilis, and Graphosoma lineatum. We found that individual species of passerine birds differ in their responses towards particular bug species. Great tits (Parus major) avoided all of them on sight, robins (Erithacus rubecula) and yellowhammers (Emberiza citrinella) discriminated among them and attacked bugs of some species with higher probability than others, and blackbirds (Turdus merula) frequently attacked bugs of all the tested species. Different predators thus perceive aposematic prey differently, and the extent of Batesian-M\u00FCllerian mimetic complexes and relations among the species involved is predator dependent." . "11310" . "RIV/00216208:11310/10:10081871!RIV11-GA0-11310___" . . . . "CZ - \u010Cesk\u00E1 republika" . "P(GA206/07/0507), S, Z(MSM0021620828)" . . "RIV/00216208:11310/10:10081871" . "True bugs are generally considered to be well protected against bird predation. Sympatric species that have similar warning coloration are supposed to form a functional M\u00FCllerian mimetic complex avoided by avian predators. We have tested whether these assumptions hold true for four species of European red-and-black heteropterans: Pyrrhocoris apterus, Lygaeus equestris, Spilostethus saxatilis, and Graphosoma lineatum. We found that individual species of passerine birds differ in their responses towards particular bug species. Great tits (Parus major) avoided all of them on sight, robins (Erithacus rubecula) and yellowhammers (Emberiza citrinella) discriminated among them and attacked bugs of some species with higher probability than others, and blackbirds (Turdus merula) frequently attacked bugs of all the tested species. Different predators thus perceive aposematic prey differently, and the extent of Batesian-M\u00FCllerian mimetic complexes and relations among the species involved is predator dependent."@en . . . . "107" . "Hotov\u00E1 Sv\u00E1dov\u00E1, Kate\u0159ina" . "3"^^ . . . "Predator dependent mimetic complexes: Do passerine birds avoid Central European red-and-black Heteroptera?"@en . "Predator dependent mimetic complexes: Do passerine birds avoid Central European red-and-black Heteroptera?" . "Kope\u010Dkov\u00E1, Michala" . "Predator dependent mimetic complexes: Do passerine birds avoid Central European red-and-black Heteroptera?" . "7"^^ . "4"^^ . . . . . "281039" . "Exnerov\u00E1, Alice" . . . "3" . . "Predator dependent mimetic complexes: Do passerine birds avoid Central European red-and-black Heteroptera?"@en . "European Journal of Entomology" . "000280409700008" . . "mimetic complex; avian predators; Heteroptera; true bugs; Aposematism"@en . "\u0160tys, Pavel" . .