Abstract

In contrast to humans who, like squids, are equipped with camera eyes, three quarter of the animal species on this earth are endowed with compound eyes the beauty of which is shared by the arthropod world. In recent years the compound eye of insects in particular has become a valuable tool for studying basic principles in vision and their neuronal implementation in the living organism. Several comprehensive reviews of this subject have been published recently, in particular in the three volumes of the Handbook of Sensory Physiology (Autrum, 1979, 1981 a, b).

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