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Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Pancrustacea » Insecta » Endopterygota » Hymenoptera » Vespoidea » Formicidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Green550nm  550nm
Blue450nm  450nm
UV370nm  369nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
Green   Photopic
Lime-Blue
552nm - 495nm - 447nm
 
Green Blue Photopic
Green-UV
550nm - 429nm - 368nm
 
Green UV Photopic

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Notes and References:

Ogawa Y., Falkowski M., Narendra A., Zeil J., Hemmi J.M. (2015) Three spectrally distinct photoreceptors in diurnal and nocturnal Australian ants. Proc Biol Sci. 2015 Jun 7; 282(1808): 20150673. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.0673

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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