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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 possible that this species, too, possesses red sensitivity, but the site admin is unaware of evidence for that.

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

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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