The well-tuned blues: The role of structural colours as optical signals in the species recognition of a local butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae)

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 73, 2012, Pages 1745-1756

  Bálint, Zsolt ^a   Kertész, Krisztián ^b   Piszter, Gábor ^b   Vértesy, Zofia ^b   Biró, László P ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Butterfly scale; Colour; Flight period; Photonic nanoarchitecture; Reflectance spectra

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NEURAL NETWORKS; REFLECTION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BUTTERFLY SCALE; BUTTERFLY SPECIES; COLOUR SPACES; DATA POINTS; FLIGHT PERIOD; LEPIDOPTERA; MUSEUM COLLECTIONS; NANO-ARCHITECTURE; NANOARCHITECTURES; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL SIGNALS; REFLECTANCE DATA; REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RECOGNITION; SPECTRAL DATA; STANDARD SOFTWARE; STRUCTURAL COLOUR; STRUCTURAL DATA; VISUAL PIGMENTS;

COLOR;

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BLUE COLOR; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; FAUNA; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; POLYOMMATUS; RECOGNITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84865085403     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0854     Document Type: Article

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