Zizeeria Chapman

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 : 216

Genus Zizeeria Chapman

( Fig. 8 E, F)

In Zizeeria knysna (Trimen) the egg has flattened annular and transition zones. The transition zone has irregular cells with not very prominent walls. Tubercles in the tubercle-aeropyle zone show large and distally flattened tips and cells with high walls. Cells of the transition and tubercle-aeropyle zone have a spongy bottom. The annular zone is reduced and has two or three series of cells and a micropylar rosette with four petals.

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FIGURE 8. Scanning electron microscope photographs of a general view of the egg and the detail of the annular zone of the eggs of Leptotes pirihous (A, B), Tarucus theophrastus (C, D), and Zizeeria knysna (E, F). Scale bars 200 (A, C, E) and 20 Μm (B, D, F).