Enantia mazai diazi, Llorente, 1984

Llorente-Bousquets, Jorge, Nieves-Uribe, Sandra, Flores-Gallardo, Adrián, Hernández-Mejía, Blanca Claudia & Castro-Gerardino, Jimena, 2018, Chorionic sculpture of eggs in the subfamily Dismorphiinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Pieridae), Zootaxa 4429 (2), pp. 201-246 : 220

Enantia mazai diazi ( Plate 6 , Fig. 10).

The egg is 1298.64 µm long and 458.2 µm wide; it is 2.84 times longer than wide. The width/length ratio is somewhat greater than 1/3; the maximum diameter is at the equator. The narrowing is gradual, forming the neck from the first basal fifth (Nh= 30). The egg is oblong and slightly acuminate obpyriform, the base is convex-hemispherical and not very reticulate, slightly wider than the cusp, which is flat and less acute than in E. m. mazai ; the neck is narrow and long. With 33 to 44 ribs (mode = 36), generally straight and coincident between axes, the curved ones are only in the apical area; they originate shortly after the base to the cusp. At the base, they are disorganized forming a grid of irregular polygons almost imperceptible because the end of the base is smooth. The axes are straight and laminar; at the equator they are from 11 to 13 (LoA= 6 or 7 and ShA = 4 to 7); in some eggs, two ShA were found between two LoA, as well as mergers in the basal zone. The ShA are separated from the perimicropylar area by 1 to 6 ribs, frequently 3. The grid is made up of wide rectangles (up to almost 3 times the width than the length) of constant amplitude, excepts toward the base where they are reduced and are subsquare; in the intercostal spaces, there is a slight roughness under staining. The symmetries are bilateral, radial or the chorion is asymmetric. Formulas:>7L5C (2LC2LCLCLCLC, 2LCLCLC2LCLC), 6L7C (L2CLCLCLCLCLC), 7L6C (2LCL2C2LCLCLC, 2LCLCLCLCLCLC, L2C2LC2LCLCLC), 6L6C (LCLCLCLCLCLC, 2LCL2CLCLCLC), and 7L4C (2LC2LCLC2LC). Color N0 0A10M0 0.

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PLATE 6. Chorion of six species (8 sspp.) of Dismorphiini (Pseudopieris spp. and Enantia spp.).