Red palm weevil (Rynchophorus ferrugineus)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Pancrustacea » Insecta » Endopterygota » Coleoptera » Curculionidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Yellow536nm475nm550nm564nm
Wideband receptor536nm440nm480nm536nm
Green520nm380nm440nm520nm
UV350nm  366nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance2
 Wideband receptor   Photopic
Yellow-Green
573nm - 539nm - 506nm
  		Yellow Green Photopic
Lime-UV
564nm - 439nm - 366nm
  		Yellow UV Photopic

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Notes and References:

Ilić M., Pirih P., Belušič G. Four photoreceptor classes in the open rhabdom eye of the red palm weevil, Rynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier Journal of Comparative Physiology A March 2016, Volume 202, Issue 3, pp 203-213.

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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