Dismorphia zathoe othoe (Hewitson, 1867)

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 : 230

Dismorphia zathoe othoe

( Plate 10 , Fig. 36).

The egg is 1257.4 µm long and 527.8 µm wide; it is 2.39 times longer than it is wide and its width/length ratio is 3/7; the maximum diameter is between the second and third fifth apical (Nh= 15). The egg is ellipsoidal and acuminate in the upper pole; the base is convex, more than 3 times wider than the acute apex and flat cusp. The apical area is quite sharp just where the most prolonged ShA begin, toward the eighth distal rib. They have 36 to 45 ribs (modes = 39, 40); the straight parallel ribs predominate up to the apical zone. They extend from shortly after the base to the cusp; alternation between axes is frequent, although they also coincide. They maintain a constant amplitude between intercostal spaces, except in the basal area (reduced). At the apex, the last 8 ribs are slightly curved. There are 9 to 11 axes (LoA= 5 to 6 and ShA= 4 or 5); these are 3 times thicker than the ribs. The LoA are projected from the base, before the first rib; the ShA are separated from the cusp by 1 to 8 ribs, often 4 or 6. In one case, a LoA is bifurcated at the cusp. The grid is rectangular; at the equator, the rectangles are little more than 3 times wider than they are long, and they are reduced in amplitude and size in the base. Roughness very dim with backlight. The eggs show bilateral or radial symmetry. For the arrangement of the axes, the following formulas are recognized:>5L5C (LCLCLCLCLC); 6L5C (2LCLCLCLCLC), 6L4C (2LC2LCLCLC, 2LCLC2LCLC), and 5L4C (2LCLCLCLC). Color N0 0 A10M0 0.

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PLATE 10. Chorion of three species (5 sspp.) of Dismorphiini (Dismorphia spp. and Moschoneura pinthous).