ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2016
Splendid coloration of the peacock spider Maratus splendens.
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- The evolution of coloration and opsins in tarantulas.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Ultra-dense, curved, grating optics determines peacock spider coloration.Nanoscale advances · 2020Article
- Sex differences in spiders: from phenotype to genomics.Development genes and evolution · 2020Review
- Structurally assisted super black in colourful peacock spiders.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Structural origins of coloration in the spiderJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- Rainbow peacock spiders inspire miniature super-iridescent optics.Nature communications · 2017Article
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Abstract
Jumping spiders are well known for their acute vision and often bright colours. The male peacock spider Maratus splendens is richly coloured by scales that cover the body. The colours of the white, cream and red scales, which have an elaborate shape with numerous spines, are pigmentary. Blue scales are unpigmented and have a structural colour, created by an intricate photonic system consisting of two chitinous layers with ridges, separated by an air gap, with on the inner sides of the chitin layers an array of filaments. We have characterized the optical properties of the scales by microspectrophotometry, imaging scatterometry and light and scanning electron microscopy. Optical modelling revealed that the filament array constitutes a novel structural coloration system, which subtly fine tunes the scale reflectance to the observed blue coloration.
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