Lieinix nemesis nemesis

Llorente-Bousquets, Jorge, Nieves-Uribe, Sandra, Flores-Gallardo, Adrián, Hernández-Mejía, Blanca Claudia & Castro-Gerardino, Jimena, 2018, Chorionic sculpture of eggs in the subfamily Dismorphiinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Pieridae), Zootaxa 4429 (2), pp. 201-246 : 221

Lieinix nemesis nemesis ( Plate 7 , Fig. 12).

The egg is 1250.6 µm long and 531.2 µm wide; it is 2.54 times longer than wide and their width/length ratio is little more than 2/5; the maximum diameter is at the equator (Nh= 15). The egg is ellipsoidal, slightly acuminate in the upper pole. The base is a little convex (in some almost flat) and 1.8 times wider than the little obtuse apex and flat cusp. The apical area is sharpened, just where the longest ShA end (toward the seventh distal rib). They have 54 to 61 ribs (mode = 57); these extend from the base to the cusp; they usually alternate between axes and maintain intercostal spaces of constant amplitude, except in the apical (widened) and the basal (reduced) areas. At the apex, the ribs are thicker and more curved compared to the rest of the egg; in some cases, the ribs seem bifurcate. There are between 9 and 12 axes (LoA= 5 to 7 and ShA= 4 to 6); these are 2.5 to 3 times thicker than the ribs; the LoA are projected from the base. The ShA are separated from the cusp by 3 to 8 ribs, often 6 or 7. The grid is composed of wide rectangles, at the equator they are little more than 5 times wider than long, but its amplitude and size in the basal area is reduced. Very slight roughness, only observable against the light after the stain. Eggs are asymmetrical or have radial or bilateral symmetries; the arrangement of the axes is variable, and the following formulas are recognized: 5L5C (LCLCLCLCLC) and 6L5C (2LCLCLCLCLC) which are the most constant; 5L4C (2LCLCLCLC), 7L4C (2LC2LC2LCLC), 7L5C (2LCLCLC2LCLC), 6L6C (LCLCLCLCLCLC), and 5L6C (CCCLCLLCLCL) are less frequent. Color N0 0 A20M0 0.

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PLATE 7. Chorion of four species (8 sspp.) of Dismorphiini (Enantia clarissa, Lieinix spp., and Dismorphia spp.).