Morphology and morphometry of Lycaenid eggs (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
Author
Munguira, Miguel L.
Author
Martín, José
Author
García-Barros, Enrique
Author
Shahbazian, Gayaneh
Author
Cancela, Juan Pablo
text
Zootaxa
2015
3937
2
201
247
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.1
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Genus
Eumedonia
Forster
(
Fig.
21
C, D)
The egg of
Eumedonia eumedon
(Esper)
has a micropylar rosette surrounded by cells with rounded walls and a characteristic rough interior formed by undulating ridges. The transition zone is very narrow and the tubercleaeropyle zone has a moderately prominent structure of quadrangular cells with spongy background from which the tubercles hardly protrude (Munguira
et al.
1988
;
Munguira
2006
).