Why are there good and poor mimics

By M. Edmunds. 2000

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Mimicry in coral reef fish: how accurate is this deception in terms of color and luminance? (2009, background): “However, inaccurate mimics exist in nature (Dittrich et al. 1993; Edmunds 2000); for example, many common hoverfly mimics resemble their models closely, whereas others only bear a crude resemblance (Azmeh et al.”
Spider-Ant Associations: An Updated Review of Myrmecomorphy, Myrmecophily, and Myrmecophagy in Spiders (2012, methodology): “, many different species of ants), then it may be adaptive for the mimetic species to evolve a general, imperfect resemblance—a gestalt resemblance— to all of them than to evolve a specific morphological resemblance to a particular model [33, 37, 49].”