Iolana Bethune-Baker

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 : 220

Genus Iolana Bethune-Baker

( Fig. 12 E, F)

The egg of Iolana debilitata (Schultz) has a clearly distinctive morphology, with the annular zone and the depressed transition zone formed by large polygonal cells with a grainy background. The micropylar rosette is similar to the other cells in the annular zone and can scarcely be distinguished. The tubercle-aeropyle zone has large, profound cells that are very narrow on the edge of the area and become wider in the centre where they resemble a honeycomb. On the intersections of the cells there are aeropyles but no tubercles.

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FIGURE 12. Scanning electron microscope photographs of a general view of the egg and the detail of the annular zone of the eggs of Glaucopsyche alexis (A, B), G. melanops (C, D), and Iolana debilitata (E, F). Scale bars 200 (A, C, E), 20 (B), and 50 Μm (D, F).