Eyespot
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Eyespot can refer to:
- Eyespot (insect photoreceptor): The area of an arthropod body (especially an insect) where the ocelli (photoreceptors) are located;
- Eyespot (mimicry): A form of automimicry in which a spot on the body of an animal resembles an eye of a different animal to deceive potential predator or prey species; or
- Eyespot (butterfly): A marking resembling an eye in butterflies and moths and certain other insects as well as the sunbittern, a bird; it is thought that such spots do not serve a mimicry function. In some cases, these spots may play a role in in intraspecies communication or reproduction; in others, however, the evolutionary function of the spots is not understood.
- Eyespot, any of several fungal and viral diseases of plants; the term is also used to describe the characteristic lesions of those diseases.
- Photoreceptor of a unicellular organism.
