Dryad (Minois dryas)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Green520nm  520nm
Blue460nm  460nm
UV380nm  379nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
Green   Photopic
Green-Blue
534nm - 491nm - 449nm
 
Green Blue Photopic
Green-UV
520nm - 434nm - 381nm
 
Green UV Photopic

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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.

Briscoe, A. D. & Chittka, L. (2001) The Evolution of Color Vision in Insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 2001. 46:471-510

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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