Mormon metalmark (Apodemia mormo)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Red Receptor600nm500nm600nm622nm
Green receptor505nm  505nm
Blue receptor450nm  450nm
UV receptor340nm  339nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
 Green receptor
Red Receptor		   Photopic
Red Receptor - Green receptor
623nm - 566nm - 505nm
  		Red Receptor Green receptor Photopic
Yellow-Blue
622nm - 496nm - 444nm
  		Green receptor
Red Receptor		 Blue receptor Photopic
Red-UV
622nm - 400nm - 339nm
  		Green receptor
Red Receptor		 UV receptor Photopic

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Notes and References:

McCulloch, K. J., Osorio, D., & Briscoe, A. D. Sexual Dimorphism in the Compound Eye of Heliconius erato: a Nymphalid Butterfly with at least Five Spectral Classes of Photoreceptor (2016) J. Exp. Biol. 219, 2377-87. doi:10.1242/jeb.136523

Bernard, G. D. (1989) Insect Compound Eyes: Design of Photoreceptor Arrays for Image Pre-Processing U. S. Army Research Office, Report# ARO 23451.3-LS. Procurement ID: DAAL03-86-K-0008

Frentiu, F. D. & Briscoe, A. D. (2008) A butterfly eye's view of birds BioEssays 30:1151-1162

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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