Cacyreus Butler

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 : 210

Genus Cacyreus Butler

( Fig. 7 E, F)

One species from this genus has recently been introduced in Europe: Cacyreus marshalli Butler. The egg has a reduced annular zone with smooth thin walled cells surrounded by various series of small transition cells. The tubercle-aeropyle region is formed by predominantly quadrangular and large cells with their intersections forming wide tubercles with aeropyles at their tips. The bottom of the cells shows an irregular spongy texture. The egg was described by Sarto & Masó (1991) using scanning electron microscope pictures.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Scanning electron microscope photographs of a general view of the egg and the detail of the annular zone of the eggs of Satyrium pruni (A, B), Lampides boeticus (C, D), and Cacyreus marshalli (E, F). Scale bars 200 (A, C), 300 (E), 50 (B, D), and 20 Μm (F).