A Seriously Defocused Spider
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 17 Story 3 - 7/6/2012

Jumping spider and its 4 eyes

A jumping spider (H. adansoni) has well-developed camera-type eyes, seemingly like human eyes. This is in striking contrast to the compound eyes — eyes made of many small and simple photoreceptors — of other arthropods such as shrimps and insects. Picture credits: Akihisa Terakita, Mitsumasa Koyanagi and Takashi Nagata.
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Jumping spider and its 4 eyes. A jumping spider (<i>H. adansoni</i>) has well-developed camera-type eyes, seemingly like human eyes. This is in striking contrast to the compound eyes — eyes made of many small and simple photoreceptors — of other arthropods such as shrimps and insects.