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We recorded from the bumblebee\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Bombus terrestris<\/jats:italic>\n                    ; two closely related but biogeographically distant apid species,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Anthophora quadrimaculata<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Amegilla murrayensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ; and the solitary species\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Anthidium manicatum<\/jats:italic>\n                    . To place these physiological measurements in an optical context, we quantified interommatidial angles (\u0394\u03c6) in corresponding eye regions to assess spatial sampling resolution and compared our results with previously published data for both sexes of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Apis mellifera<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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