Is there a method to plot flower color reflectance spectrum on a butterfly visual system (over six photo-receptors),like what was usually done to bees (a hexagon) and flies (a square)?
The visual system in R package pavo does not have in-built butterfly visual system. The manual showed how to construct mantis shrimp (with ten photo-receptors) visual system by ourselves, but it seems impossible to use the constructed visual system into the analysis.
(usually the system is used by the code "visual=apis" for bees, "visual=musca" for flies, etc.)
Hi,
For your reference, there is a paper used Colias, a pentachromatic colour vision butterfly. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12244
But an animal having six types of photoreceptors does not necessarily mean it has hexachromatic vision, as not all the photoreceptors are invloved in colour vision.
Yang
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