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epigamicepigam (ger.)

  • Relating to the mating of animals and the characteristics of colour, etc., which serve to attract the opposite sex during courtship. (OED 2012)
    courtship
    1890

    Epigamic Colours. Colours displayed in courtship.

    Poulton, E.B. (1890). The Colours of Animals: 338.

    1927

    characters are called epigamic which are known by observation to be used in mating or its preliminaries.

    Richards, O.W. (1927). Sexual selection and allied problems in the insects. Biol. Rev. 2, 298-360: 299.

    1938

    All selection connected with sex-limited epigamic characters must be intra-specific, because intra-sexual.

    Huxley, J.S. (1938). Darwin’s theory of sexual selection and the data subsumed by it, in the light of recent research. Amer. Nat. 72, 416-433: 429.

    1982

    epigamic Used of any character or trait that serves to attract or stimulate individuals of the opposite sex during courtship, other than essential structures and behaviour of copulation; epigamous

    Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 82.