Prosopalpus styla Evans, 1937

Collins, Steve C., 2017, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 12. New information and corrections, Zootaxa 4312 (3), pp. 471-496 : 490

Prosopalpus styla Evans, 1937

Congdon & Collins (1998) and Cock & Congdon (2014) report that TCEC observed P. styla oviposit on an unidentified grass. Here we present an image of the ovum ( Figure 21 ) following manipulation of a scan of the original transparency. It appears to have about 35 well marked granular ribs, some of which stop well short of the micropyle.

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FIGURE 21. Ovum of Prosopalpus styla photographed on unidentified grass following field oviposition, Minziro, Tanzania, 30 Dec 1994 [TCEC].