Chinese peacock (Papilio bianor)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Pancrustacea » Insecta » Endopterygota » Lepidoptera » Papilionoidea » Papilionidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
R receptor560nm450nm546nm574nm
DG receptor520,360nm  520nm
SG receptor520nm340nm390nm520nm
BB receptor460,520,560nm340nm390nm477nm
NB receptor460nm340nm390nm460nm
WB receptor460,360nm  460nm
V receptor350nm340nm470nm415nm
UV receptor350nm  349nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
SG receptor   Photopic
R-DG
583nm - 538nm - 504nm
 
R receptor DG receptor Photopic
R+DG-NB+WB
565nm - 508nm - 455nm
 
R receptor
DG receptor
WB receptor
NB receptor
Photopic
Green-UV
532nm - 482nm - 354nm
 
SG receptor WB receptor Photopic
RDG-UV
548nm - 442nm - 414nm
 
SG receptor
R receptor
DG receptor
BB receptor
UV receptor
V receptor
Photopic
Green-UV
520nm - 405nm - 349nm
 
SG receptor UV receptor Photopic

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Notes and References:

Koshitaka, H., Kinoshita, M., Vorobyev, M., Arikawa, K. (2008) Tetrachromacy in a butterfly that has eight varieties of spectral receptors. Proc. R. Soc. B (2008) 275, 947-954

Land M.F. (1997) Visual Acuity in Insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 42:147-177

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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