Eumedonia Forster

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 : 233

Genus Eumedonia Forster

( Fig. 21 C, D)

The egg of Eumedonia eumedon (Esper) has a micropylar rosette surrounded by cells with rounded walls and a characteristic rough interior formed by undulating ridges. The transition zone is very narrow and the tubercleaeropyle zone has a moderately prominent structure of quadrangular cells with spongy background from which the tubercles hardly protrude (Munguira et al. 1988; Munguira 2006).

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FIGURE 21. Scanning electron microscope photographs of a general view of the egg and the detail of the annular zone of the eggs of Aricia montensis (A, B), Eumedonia eumedon (C, D), and Kretania hesperica (E, F). Scale bars 200 (A), 300 (C E), 20 (B, F), and 50 Μm (D).