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Notes and References:

Longwave-transmissive screening pigments and red-inclusive tetrachromacy are known for several members of this family. It is likely that this species, too, possesses red sensitivity, but the site admin is unaware of evidence for that.

Zaccardi, G., Kelber, A., Sison-Mangus, M. P., & Briscoe, A. D. Color discrimination in the red range with only one long-wavelength sensitive opsin (2006) J. Exp. Biol. 209, 1944-55. doi:10.1242/jeb.02207

Warrant E.J., Nilsson D.-E. (1998) Absorption of White Light in Photoreceptors. Vision Res., Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 195-207. PII: S0042-6989(97)00151-X

Stavenga D., Smits R.P., Hoenders B.J. (1993) Simple Exponential Functions Describing the Absorbance Bands of Visual Pigment Spectra. Vision Res. 33(8) pp. 1011-1017. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90237-Q



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