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  • Longwing
    Lepidoptera
    / Head

    …cluster of sensory bristles (the chaetosema) on each side of the head near the eye. On either side of the head is a large compound eye, sometimes consisting of thousands of units (ommatidia). Most moths have, in addition to the compound eyes, a pair of very small simple eyes (ocelli),…

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    …cluster of sensory bristles (the chaetosema) on each side of the head near the eye. On either side of the head is a large compound eye, sometimes consisting of thousands of units (ommatidia). Most moths have, in addition to the compound eyes, a pair of very small simple eyes (ocelli),…

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