Dual structural color mechanisms in a sc
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Man Xu; Ainsley E. Seago; Tara D. Sutherland; Sarah Weisman
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The cuticle of a __Mycterophallus__ cetoniine scarab species displays both red iridescence due to a multilayer reflector mechanism and rainbow iridescence due to a superimposed diffraction grating mechanism. This is the first reported example of an animal possessing two independent clas