Leptotes Scudder

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 Leptotes Scudder

( Fig. 8 A, B)

The egg of Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus) has a very regular pattern in which the cells have a rhomboid shape and are arranged in spiral lines. Cells from the tubercle-aeropyle zone have smooth walls and rounded scarcely prominent tubercles in the intersections. The annular zone occupies a very small area and is located inside a depression. Annular cells are irregular in shape and have short stripes of chorionic elevations in their inside, while the micropylar rosette is four petalled.

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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).