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Cover picture: The eye shine of the butterfly Heliconius melpomene, visualized with a newly developed large-aperture epi-illumination microscope, demonstrates the striking heterogeneity in the ommatidial characteristics of butterfly eyes. The colour of the eye shine is determined mainly by the reflectance spectrum of the tapetal mirror and the transmittance spectrum of photoreceptor screening pigments when accumulated near the light-guiding rhabdom. The red-reflecting ommatidia presumably contain red-sensitive photoreceptors (see Stavenga, pp. 1077-1085).
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