title: Ultrastructure of the eggs of Culicoides circumscriptus, Culicoides gejgelensis, and Culicoides imicola (Diptera:Ceratopogonidae).
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, Vero Beach 32962, USA.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Duzak
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Braverman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chizov-Ginzburg
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Linley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D007557:Israel; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D010063:Ovum / Q000648:ultrastructure*