Glaucopsyche Scudder

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 Glaucopsyche Scudder

( Fig. 12 A–D)

The annular area is reduced, the micropylar rosette formed by three petals and the transition zone made up of very small cells in the two species that are present in our area. In Glaucopsyche alexis (Poda) the transition zone has abundant cells of an irregular profile that, in the equator, are almost the same size as the tubercles which are arranged in the intersections of the cell walls. The egg of G. melanops (Boisduval) ( Fig. 12 C, D) is perhaps indistinguishable from that of G. a l e xi s except for the cells in the transition and the tubercle-aeropyle zones that are regularly triangular and the tubercles which are finer and smaller than the cells ( Fig. 12 A, B). The annular zone is also different between the two species, having only one speck per cell in G. alexis and more than one in G. melanops (Fig, 12B, D).

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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).