X-Nico

unusual facts about compound eyes



Asilidae

The head is free and mobile and dichoptic in both sexes and has three ocelli arranged in a characteristic depression formed by the elevation of the compound eyes.

Opostegidae

Opostegidae or "white eyecap moths" is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order that is characterised by particularly large eyecaps over the compound eyes (see also Nepticulidae, Bucculatricidae, Lyonetiidae).


see also

Opsin

Arthropods do use different opsins in their different eye types, but at least in Limulus the opsins expressed in lateral and in compound eyes are 99% identical and presumably diverged recently.