Thecla Fabricius

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 : 205

Genus Thecla Fabricius

( Fig. 3 C, D)

This genus has only one species in the area, Thecla betulae (Linnaeus) whose eggs have an hemispherical profile. The micropylar area is surrounded by a circular depression with narrow crescent shaped cells and a four petalled micropylar rosette. This depression is flanked by rounded projections in a radial arrangement on their outside area. The sides are made up of polygonal cells with rounded corners.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Scanning electron microscope photographs of a general view of the egg and the detail of the annular zone of the eggs of Lycaena hippothoe (A, B), Thecla betulae (C, D), and Favonius quercus (E, F). Scale bars 200 Μm (A, C, E) and 20 Μm (B, D, F).