Crepuscular and nocturnal illumination and its effects on color perception by the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor

S Johnsen, A Kelber, E Warrant… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.biologists.com
… species have true color vision under nocturnal illumination. Thus, their vision is potentially
… for the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor, which has color vision. The reflectance …

Colour vision in nocturnal insects

E Warrant, H Somanathan - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
colour vision and colour constancy even in starlight. Using the well-studied Deilephila elpenor,
we … This can be seen by modelling Deilephila's colour perception when confronted with …

Three visual pigments inDeilephila elpenor (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae)

J Schwemer, R Paulsen - Journal of comparative physiology, 1973 - Springer
… The visual pigments found in the moth Deilephila elpenor are the physiological bases of
trichromatic vision. The spectral absorbances of P 520, P 440 and P 345 as well as their …

Limits of colour vision in dim light

A Kelber, O Lind - Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… aperture and tracheal tapeta, and are therefore well adapted to nocturnal vision. For the
nocturnal elephant hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor, we have determined a sensitivity of S w = 441 …

Scotopic colour vision in nocturnal hawkmoths

A Kelber, A Balkenius, EJ Warrant - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
… , that the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor uses colour vision to discriminate coloured
stimuli … colour changes, thereby showing colour constancy—a property of true colour vision

Colour vision in diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths

A Kelber, A Balkenius, EJ Warrant - Integrative and Comparative …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… two different shades of the same colour. We used it to study moths of Deilephila elpenor,
Hyles lineata and Hyles gallii. Moths were trained to associate a colour (blue or yellow) with a …

Nocturnal colour vision–not as rare as we might think

A Kelber, LSV Roth - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2006 - journals.biologists.com
… used for vision in dim light and cones used for vision in bright … species Deilephila elpenor
learned to discriminate a training colour … or darker shades of the training colour. (A) The animal …

Colour constancy in diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths

A Balkenius, A Kelber - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004 - journals.biologists.com
Deilephila elpenor and the diurnal hawkmoth Macroglossum stellatarum also have colour
constancy. … However, the role of cognition in colour perception can only be tested in humans. …

Simulations of Learning and Behaviour in the Hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor

A Balkenius, A Kelber, C Balkenius - 2002 - direct.mit.edu
… The Maxwell colour triangle for Deilephila elpenor with the live different colours used in
the experiment. The curve illustrates the location of the monochromatic lights The comers …

The arrangement of colour receptors in a fused rhabdom of an insect: A microspectrophotometric study on the mothDeilephila

P Schlecht, K Hamdorf, H Langer - Journal of comparative physiology, 1978 - Springer
… on the retina of Deilephila elpenor were performed using … Deilephila is very well adapted
for colour perception in dim light conditions, with high resolution in the discrimination of colour