The superposition eye of skipper butterflies

GA Horridge, C Giddings… - Proceedings of the …, 1972 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Almost all clear zone compound eyes contain crystalline tracts or retinula cell columns …
skipper butterflies most of the fight crossing the clear zone does so according to the superposition

Colour vision and the physiology of the superposition eye of a butterfly (Hesperiidae)

SL Swihart - Journal of insect physiology, 1969 - Elsevier
… (1968) describes a type of skipper eye quite unlike anything we have encountered. It can …
superposition eye is not fundamentally very different, physiologically, from the apposition eye. …

Synaptic organization in the lamina of the superposition eye of a skipper butterfly, Parnara guttata

M Shimohigashi, Y Tominaga - Journal of Comparative …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
… a feature of the superposition eye. What is … skipper butterfly Parnara guttata to clarify the
cellular and synaptic organization in the lamina cartridge beneath its diurnal superposition eyes

The eyes of Macrosoma sp.(Lepidoptera: Hedyloidea): A nocturnal butterfly with superposition optics

JE Yack, SE Johnson, SG Brown, EJ Warrant - Arthropod Structure & …, 2007 - Elsevier
… For example, skipper butterflies (Hesperioidea) possess a modified … possess refracting
superposition eyes, a design more typical of nocturnal moths than of diurnal butterflies. We will …

Optics of the butterfly eye

DE Nilsson, MF Land, J Howard - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 1988 - Springer
… Our findings in butterflies thus provide a link between apposition and superposition eyes
In this paper we give a detailed description of the butterfly optical system and interpretations of it…

The resolving power of diurnal superposition eyes measured with an ophthalmoscope

MF Land - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 1984 - Springer
… to study two of the most acute superposition eyes - those of skipper butterflies (Horridge et al.
… Both skippers and agaristids are diurnal, and they have a superposition pupil that remains …

12. Eyes and vision

E Warrant, A Kelber, NP Kristensen - … , moths and butterflies, 2003 - degruyter.com
… In dayactive skipper butterflies and agaristine noctuid moths the … In the superposition eyes
of diurnal skippers, agaristine noctuids and hawkmoths, spherical aberration appears to be …

Partial coherence and other optical delicacies of lepidopteran superposition eyes

DG Stavenga - Journal of experimental biology, 2006 - journals.biologists.com
… intrinsic to the superposition eye design. … skipper butterflies (Hesperoidea) rely on
superposition eyes. The structural details and the optical properties of the diurnal superposition eyes

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NP Kristensen - 2003 - researchgate.net
… In dayactive skipper butterflies and agaristine noctuid moths the … In the superposition eyes
of diurnal skippers, agaristine noctuids and hawkmoths, spherical aberration appears to be …

Variation of eye size in butterflies: inter-and intraspecific patterns

RL Rutowski - Journal of Zoology, 2000 - cambridge.org
eyes show the same general pattern of variation in size with body size and sex, skippers have
superposition eyes … Mate location behaviour of the large skipper butterfly Ochlodes venata: …