Lady beetle (Coccinella septempunctata)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Green520nm  520nm
Blue420nm  420nm
UV360nm  359nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
Green   Photopic
Green-Violet
521nm - 465nm - 419nm
 
Green Blue Photopic
Green-UVA
520nm - 415nm - 358nm
 
Green UV Photopic

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Notes and References:

Lin, J.-T. (1993) Identification of photoreceptor locations in the compound eye of Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Journal of Insect Physiology Volume 39, Issue 7, July 1993, Pages 555-562. doi:10.1016/0022-1910(93)90037-R

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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