Hamadryas amphichloe ferox (Staudinger, 1886)

Nieves-Uribe, Sandra, Flores-Gallardo, Adrián, Llorente-Bousquets, Jorge, Luis-Martínez, Armando & Pozo, Carmen, 2019, Use of exochorion characters for the systematics of Hamadryas Hübner and Ectima Doubleday (Nymphalidae: Biblidinae: Ageroniini), Zootaxa 4619 (1), pp. 77-108 : 84-85

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0DAD3CBB-6238-48E5-B495-27CFA5774297

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4329217

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87A0-FFC2-C64D-FF16-4944FCF91F8B

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Hamadryas amphichloe ferox
status

 

Hamadryas amphichloe ferox View in CoL

( Fig. 5 A, B View FIGURE 5 ). Eggs average 961± 23.48 µm long and 979± 22.71 µm wide (n = 12), 0.98 times longer than maximum diameter, and width/length ratio is 1.02. Egg is globose foam, quasi-spheroidal and somewhat sinuous due to its knolls; convex base is 1.4 times wider than the lightly convex apex. Base is smooth, although it absorbs more stain than H. februa ferentina ; in prebasal zone there are soft polygons smaller than those in the rest of the chorion ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A-i). Base is almost 1/8 the length of egg. The chorion shows five to six knolls from the perimicropylar to the prebasal area, with irregular edges less interrupted than those of H. februa ferentina ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A-iii, 5 B-ii) ( Nieves-Uribe et al. 2015, Pl. 7, Fig. B); most of them bifurcate, either from the apical third or near equator ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A-iv); all have slumps located from apical region to basal 1/3 ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A-v). Background grid displays pentagonal, hexagonal, and irregular polygons, with aristate and rounded edges. Polygons on the slopes of the knolls increase in size as they approach their summits – twice the size of those not in them—so they are unnoticed ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A-vi). Polygons appear to have a constant size over the entire surface while the cells in the knolls are arranged in such a way that the knolls appear thin ( Fig. 5 A View FIGURE 5 , B-vii). Macro-cells are only on some summits of knolls of the apical region and are two to three times larger than other polygons ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 B-viii). Between the knolls, polygons form a pattern of eight to 11 ‘ribs’ ( Fig. 5 A View FIGURE 5 , B-ix), which also form triangles in bifurcation regions ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A-ix); these ‘ribs’ extend from the apex to prebasal zone, the presumed ‘ribs’ are like those of H. g. glauconome ( Nieves-Uribe et al. 2016d, Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ), are almost imperceptible in lateral view and conspicuous in an apical view. The micropylar zone is depressed, and the apical region is flattened ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 B-x), although it is not noticeable due to the conspicuous knolls in this region. Color A 10 M 00 N 00.

Material examined: Colombia: Huila: Yaguará, Betania , Santa Helena (02°24’50.04”N, 75°43’24.06”W), 846 msnm, 23-XII-2015, J. Llorente (ABD-1892, ABD-1898) GoogleMaps .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

SubFamily

Biblidinae

Genus

Hamadryas

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF