The giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon has spectrally rich apposition eyes with unique light-de...
The giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon has spectrally rich apposition eyes with unique light-dependent photoreceptor dynamics
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The palm borer moth
Paysandisia archon
(Burmeister, 1880) (fam. Castniidae) is a large, diurnally active palm pest. Its compound eyes consist of ~ 20,000 ommatidia and have apposition optics with interommatidial angles below 1°. The ommatidia contain nine photoreceptor cells and appear structurally similar to those in nymphalid butterflies. T...
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The giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon has spectrally rich apposition eyes with unique light-dependent photoreceptor dynamics
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6028894
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6028894
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0340-7594
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1432-1351
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10.1007/s00359-018-1267-z
