Tarucus Moore

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 : 210

Genus Tarucus Moore

( Fig. 8 C, D)

In Tarucus theophrastus (Fabricius) the transition zone has a star like appearance with radially elongated cells. The tubercle-aeropyle zone has elongated cells perpendicular to the radius and large tubercles crowned by aeorpyles. The bottom of the cells has a rough surface. Annular zone is very small with a four petalled micropylar rosette and two series of cells, the first one with simple and the second with numerous chorionic outcrops.

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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).