Dysgonia algira (Linnaeus, 1767)

Dolinskaya, I. V, 2014, Egg Morphology Of Some Nolidae And Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), Vestnik Zoologii 48 (6), pp. 553-561 : 558

Dysgonia algira (Linnaeus, 1767)

D e s c r i p t i o n. Egg subspherical ( fig. 21 ), height 0.7–0.8 mm, diameter 0.8–0.9 mm (n = 2). Chorion white, transparent.

Chorion ridged, marked on two thirds surface. Micropylar area represented by rosette and 5 rows polygonal cells ( fig. 22 ). Rosette with 9-10 broad and short petalled cells and 5 micropylar openings, which located as star ( fig. 24 ). The clear transition between cells of micropylar area and remaining egg surface absent ( fig. 22 ). There are 34–37 slightly wavy, narrow longitudinal ridges with aeropyles at walls junctions. Transverse walls narrow and distinct as ridges. Chorion sharply pebbled everywhere ( fig. 23 ).

Figures

Fig. 19–24. Eggs of Erebidae, Catocalinae: 19, 20 — Euclidia glyphica; 21–24 — Dysgonia algira. Scale bars: 19, 22–24 — 10 µm; 20 — 1 µm; 21 — 100 µm.