TY  - JOUR
TI  - Ultrastructure of the eggs of Culicoides circumscriptus, Culicoides gejgelensis, and Culicoides imicola (Diptera:Ceratopogonidae).
T2  - Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
UR  - https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/126897
PY  - 1997
N1  - Author(s) - Day JF.Duzak D.Braverman Y.Chizov-Ginzburg A.Linley JR.
AB  - The eggs of Culicoides circumscriptus Kieffer, Culicoides gejgelensis Dzhafarov, and Culicoides imicola Kieffer collected in Israel are described and illustrated by scanning electron micrographs. Eggs of all 3 species were morphologically similar, generally sausage- or cigar-shaped, with slight dorsal-ventral curvature and longitudinal rows of tubercle pillars covered with a thin adhesive layer. Tubercle pillars were scarce on C. circumscriptus and C. imicola eggs, but were common on C. gejgelensis eggs, forming longitudinal plastrons with an associated hydrofuge meshwork. All 3 species had micropyle domes and associated aeropyles at the anterior end of their eggs.
ER  -