Japanese swallowtail (Papilio xuthus)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
R receptor575nm450,540nm500,570nm592nm
DG receptor515,360nm  515nm
SG receptor515nm340nm390nm515nm
BB receptor440,515,575nm340nm390nm448nm
NB receptor440nm340nm390nm441nm
WB receptor440,360nm  440nm
V receptor360nm340nm390nm393nm
UV receptor360nm  359nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
SG receptor   Photopic
R-DG
597nm - 550nm - 487nm
 
R receptor DG receptor Photopic
R+DG-NB+WB
585nm - 490nm - 438nm
 
R receptor
DG receptor
WB receptor
NB receptor
Photopic
Green-Indigo
521nm - 469nm - 430nm
 
SG receptor WB receptor Photopic
RDG-UV
519nm - 427nm - 390nm
 
SG receptor
R receptor
DG receptor
BB receptor
UV receptor
V receptor
Photopic
Green-UV
515nm - 414nm - 358nm
 
SG receptor UV receptor Photopic

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Notes and References:

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Arikawa, K. & Stavenga, D. G. Random Array of Colour Filters in the Eyes of Butterflies (1997) J. Exp. Biol. 200, 2501-2506

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

Koshitaka, H., Kinoshita, M., Vorobyev, M., Arikawa, K. (2008) Tetrachromacy in a butterfly that has eight varieties of spectral receptors. Proc. R. Soc. B (2008) 275, 947-954

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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