We investigated the morphology and morphometry of eggs from the colonies of the Entomology Laboratory at ENCB-IPN belonging to six species of the genus Meccus and Triatoma recurva, using both light and scanning electron microscopy. Egg ornamentation is an important parameter to consider in the differentiation of species. Samples were observed under a scanning electron microscope. Measurements of fifty eggs per species included length, width, and opercular diameter, which were used for the morphometric analysis. The results showed that the seven species display a polygonal ornamentation dominated by hexagons; the operculum shows also a polygonal ornamental characteristic in each species. Morphometry provided valuable information for discriminating between closely related species of the genus Meccus and Triatoma recurva, a species akin to this group, thereby facilitating the complete discrimination of these species.
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1 June 2016
Comparative Egg Morphology of Six Meccus Species and Triatoma recurva (Stål, 1868) Hemiptera: Reduviidae
Nancy Rivas,
Esther Sánchez-Espíndola,
Alejandro D. Camacho,
Ricardo Alejandre-Aguilar
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Journal of Vector Ecology
Vol. 41 • No. 1
June 2016
Vol. 41 • No. 1
June 2016
egg morphology
Meccus
morphometry
scanning electron microscopy
Triatoma recurva