Copyright: Uwe Kils
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Name: superpostion compound eye
Scientific name: Euphausia superba
Details: The compound eye, function diagram
Status:redrawn after Kaestner, Lehrbuch der Speziellen Zoologie Band I: Wirbellose 2. Teil Zweite Auflage Fischer Stuttgart 1967 page 865 fig. 684 (nach PAPE) and 685 (nach HOMANN)
Dynamic: schematic from preserved specimen
Special: dragonfly Aeschna up to 12 000 single lenses, Polyphylla fullo 32 mm 12150 lenses, Melolonta vulgaris (Maikaefer) 25 mm 5475 , Rhabdomer 40 - 120 nm diameter, ommatid angles Squilla mantis 12 ', Leander serratus 2.2o, Porcellio scaber 20 - 40o, (Homo sapiens 0.9'), sees flower in 80 cm distance with same details as bee in 1 cm, Cristal lens 1.55 in center 1.44 to 1.33 in periferie, 350 nm and 500 nm maximum, 600 - 650 most don't react, dynamic resolution Porcellion 2.5 ', Locustra (O 1.1o react neurophysioloically to 0.1o displacement, pigmentmigration Palaemon 30 minutes towards bright, 75 minutes towards dark, Carausius 22 000 amplification, Notonecta 50 minuten towards dark with pigments into cristal lenses, 10 seconds tn transient illumination, Bee 300 per sec, Homo sapiens 50 flashes per second,
Articles: Kaestner, Lehrbuch der Speziellen Zoologie Band I: Wirbellose 2. Teil Zweite Auflage Fischer Stuttgart 1967 page 865 fig. 684 (nach PAPE) and 685 (nach HOMANN)
Availability: GIF, high resolution TIFF, 70 mm film, color slide 35 mm, color slide 60 mm, overhaed acetate, CD ROM, VideoVHS-tape, umatic, highband SP, digital tape, 16mm film
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