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Keywords: carotenoid-free diets, pigments, carotenoids and chlorophyll occur together, distribution of carotenoids in different Lepidoptera with special reference to toxic species, distribution of carotenoids within the body of silk moths and locusts, pheromone reception, sound reception, post-emergence cuticular growth in Calliphora, comparison of carotenoids in diapausing and non-diapausing pupae, crypsis and aposematic effects, carotenoids in dual signals, cryptic