Aricia Reichenbach

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 : 228

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5667707

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7E3187A4-5371-FFD0-FF58-F9FF7B026F96

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Plazi

scientific name

Aricia Reichenbach
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Genus Aricia Reichenbach View in CoL

( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 and 21 View FIGURE 21 A, B)

The annular zone of the species from this genus is small and formed by cells of smooth surface, only occasionally bearing small ridges in Aricia nicias (Meigen) ( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 A, B) and A. cramera (Eschscholtz) ( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 E, F). This contrasts with the transition zone in which the surface of the cells is porous and the cell walls have a rough texture. Cells in this zone are organized in a regular spiral pattern that is more evident in Aricia montensis Verity ( Fig. 21 View FIGURE 21 A, B). In A. nicias the tubercle-aeropyle area has well developed ridged tubercles and cells with three or four sides, which adjoin together in groups of five to seven. The size of the tubercles is large in A. nicias , intermediate in A. montensis and short in A. cramera and A. morronensis (Ribbe) (20C, D). In the latter species this trait is variable in the different areas and tubercles can be larger than in the pictured specimen (see Munguira & Martín 1988; Munguira 1989). Tubercles are also crowned with aeropyles at their tips in all the species of the genus. A. cramera also differs from the eggs of the other species by the higher number of cells, making it quite similar to the egg of A. agestis , while that of A. montensis resembles A. artaxerxes (Fabricius) . The egg of A. agestis and A. artaxerxes has been described in detail by Smyllie (2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Orbiniidae

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