Tomares Rambur

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 : 209

Genus Tomares Rambur

( Fig. 4 C, D)

Tomares ballus (Fabricius) has a spherical egg, flattened at the poles and with a grid formed by scarcely prominent cells. Cells are even less prominent in the micropylar area which clearly differentiates this egg from that of other members of the Eumaeini tribe ( Callophrys and Satyrium ). The surface of the bottom of the cells is smooth both in the annular and tubercle-aeropyle zones. The annular zone has no distinctive features other than the smaller size of the cells.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Scanning electron microscope photographs of a general view of the egg and the detail of the annular zone of the eggs of Laeosopis roboris (A, B), Tomares ballus (C, D), and Callophrys rubi (E, F). Scale bars 500 (A) 300 (C), 200 (E), 50 (B), and 20 Μm (D, F).