Scolitantides Hübner

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 : 216

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.1

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:81C79871-DD3C-4240-9480-529202B5DBD4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5667693

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scientific name

Scolitantides Hübner
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Genus Scolitantides Hübner View in CoL View at ENA

( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 )

The three species of the genus show two very differnt egg morphology patterns which could be held as an argument for splitting this taxon into two distinct genera. Scolitantides orion (Pallas) ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 A, B) has a depressed annular zone and a transition zone whose cells are radial, elongated and with very thick walls. The tubercle-aeropyle zone has equatorially orientated cells with walls equally thick and without tubercles, giving the chorion a robust appearance. S. panoptes (Hübner) ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 C, D) shows an extremely reduced micropylar area, with two or three series of cells and a transition zone formed from very small, triangular or quadrangular cells. The tubercle-aeropyle zone shows a high number of short tubercles. In S. abencerragus (Pierret) ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 E, F) the transition zone is mainly occupied by rhomboidal cells that adjoin the annular area to form a star like pattern. The tubercles are prominent and fewer than in S. panoptes (40 on the equator versus 60 in the former species).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

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