Scotopic colour vision in nocturnal hawkmoths

A Kelber, A Balkenius, EJ Warrant - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
… the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor uses colour vision to discriminate coloured stimuli
… We conclude that nocturnal hawkmoths use colour vision, rather than achromatic cues, to …

Colour vision in diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths

A Kelber, A Balkenius, EJ Warrant - Integrative and Comparative …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… the crepuscular hawkmoth Manduca sexta depends on olfaction and vision to … visual cues
that diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths use for flower detection and recognition. Hawkmoths

Nocturnal colour vision–not as rare as we might think

A Kelber, LSV Roth - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2006 - journals.biologists.com
… Direct evidence for nocturnal colour vision only exists for nocturnal hawkmoths and
geckos, but more species need to be studied. Rather than asking why some animals do have …

Colour vision in nocturnal insects

E Warrant, H Somanathan - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… The ability to see colour at night is known only from a handful … nocturnal colour vision is
now known from two other species of hawk moths, a single species of carpenter bee, a nocturnal

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
… and civil twilight (solar elevation between 0and –6) and 220 spectra of daylight under a
forest canopy using a model of color vision for the nocturnal hawkmoth, Deilephila elpenorL. …

Nocturnal bees learn landmark colours in starlight

H Somanathan, RM Borges, EJ Warrant, A Kelber - Current Biology, 2008 - cell.com
… , is remarkable because insensitive apposition eyes were thought unable to support nocturnal
colour vision. Hitherto, nocturnal colour vision was known only in nocturnal hawkmoths [ …

Colour constancy in diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths

A Balkenius, A Kelber - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004 - journals.biologists.com
… have been shown to use colour vision for flower discrimination. Here, we … nocturnal hawkmoth
Deilephila elpenor and the diurnal hawkmoth Macroglossum stellatarum also have colour

Limits of colour vision in dim light

A Kelber, O Lind - Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… of colour vision. We review what is known about colour vision in dim light, and compare
colour vision … For the nocturnal elephant hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor, we have determined a …

The relative importance of olfaction and vision in a diurnal and a nocturnal hawkmoth

A Balkenius, W Rosén, A Kelber - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2006 - Springer
… a diurnal or nocturnal lifestyle affects the weight given to vision and olfaction. We tested naïve
hawkmoths of … Both species have colour vision and colour constancy (Kelber and Hénique …

Achromatic cues are important for flower visibility to hawkmoths and other insects

CJ van der Kooi, A Kelber - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… contrast in an experiment with diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths, and present evidence from
… These three historical facets of studies on insect colour vision have contributed to our lack of …