{
  "name": "Compound eyes: ommatidia counts and facet widths",
  "desc": "Published ommatidia counts and facet widths, one row per claim, with the facet spacing and eye outline computed for this page from the scale bars printed on two German wasp micrographs",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Ants, Cells & Atoms",
  "url": "https://antscellsandatoms.com/insects/compound-eye/",
  "from": [
    "values typed from the sources in data_credit",
    "pixel positions read from media/compound-eye-hero-vespula-sem.jpg (500 µm bar 282 px; facet centres every 13-14 px; eye outline 455 by 635 px) and media/compound-eye-facets-vespula-sem.jpg (200 µm bar 305 px; seven facets over 268 px)"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Ants, Cells & Atoms from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Makarova AA et al. 2025, eLife 14:RP103247, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103247, retrieved 2026-10-25",
    "Buffry AD et al. 2024, BMC Biology 22:67, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01864-7, retrieved 2026-10-25",
    "Tran H, Dostatni N, Ramaekers A 2025, Biology Open 14(6):bio061962, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.061962, retrieved 2026-10-25",
    "Juusola M et al. 2017, eLife 6:e26117, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26117, retrieved 2026-10-25",
    "Taylor GJ, Tichit P, Schmidt MD, Bodey AJ, Rau C, Baird E 2019, eLife 8:e40613, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40613, retrieved 2026-10-25",
    "Gutiérrez D, Rigosi E, Nagloo N, O'Carroll D, Warrant EJ 2024, Journal of Experimental Biology 227(16):jeb246670, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246670, retrieved 2026-10-25",
    "Scale-bar measurements: SecretDisc, Vespula germanica SEM Eye 01 and Eye 02, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vespula_germanica_SEM_Eye_01.jpg; computed 2026-10-25",
    "GBIF Secretariat 2023, GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei, CC BY 4.0, taxon keys in the gbif_key column, retrieved 2026-10-25"
  ]
}