Colour vision of the foraging swallowtail butterfly Papilio xuthus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-102

  Kinoshita, Michiyo ^a   Shimada, Naoko ^a   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Butterfly; Colour; Learning; Papilio xuthus; Retina; Spectral receptor; Vision

Indexed keywords

PAPILIO XUTHUS;

EID: 0032942164     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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