[jbovlaste] ocellus, ommatidium, eyelet

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

These are all kinds of eyes in insects ("eyelet" has another meaning). An 
ocellus is a simple eye which only detects light. An ommatidium is a part of a 
compound eye; it sees one pixel in color and consists of a lens (a set of 
mirrors in some crustaceans) and a rhabdom, a rod-shaped bundle of cells 
sensitive to different colors. An eyelet is found in the order Strepsiptera. 
The eye consists of 16-50 eyelets, each of which forms an image with a lens 
and a retina, whose fields of view overlap.

I'm thinking of "kanlysle" for "ommatidium". What do you think?

Btw, if you know Modern Greek, ματι is short for ομματιον, of which ομματιδιον 
is a further diminutive.

Pierre
-- 
When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates.
Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada.

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