Agriades Hübner

Munguira, Miguel L., Martín, José, García-Barros, Enrique, Shahbazian, Gayaneh & Cancela, Juan Pablo, 2015, Morphology and morphometry of Lycaenid eggs (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), Zootaxa 3937 (2), pp. 201-247 : 233-234

Genus Agriades Hübner

( Fig. 22 E, F and 23)

The annular zone is reduced, surrounded by very small, profound cells with a hexagonal or rounded form and undulated walls in Agriades glandon (Prunner) ( Fig. 22 F). In A. zullichi Hemming , the micropylar rosette has four petals with a central ridge and the rest of the annulus has cells decorated at the bottom with elongated outcrops ( Fig. 23 B). These outcrops are present in A. zullichi but not in A. glandon . The cells that surround the annular zone are less profound in A. zullichi than those of A. glandon in the few examples that have been studied. In both species the tubercle-aeropyle area consists of polygonal or rounded cells and a greater number of tubercles when further away from the annular ring. Tubercles are small, blunt and have an aeropyle at the end ( Figs. 22 E and 23A).

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FIGURE 22. Scanning electron microscope photographs of a general view of the egg and the detail of the annular zone of the eggs of Plebejus argus (A, B), P. idas (C, D), and Agriades glandon (E, F). Scale bars 200 (A, C, E) and 20 Μm (B, D, F).

FIGURE 23. Scanning electron microscope photographs of a general view of the egg and the detail of the annular zone of the eggs of Agriades zullichi (A, B). Scale bars 300 (A) and 20 Μm (B).