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Using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the fine structure of the egg chorion is described and comparatively analyzed in nine species of Catocala underwing moths.
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The authors express gratitude to the scientists of the Intercathedral Laboratory of Electronic Microscopy of the Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, for technical support supervision and for help in carrying out the electron microscopic studies.
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The study was supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation (14-5000029: collection and examination of material, creation of illustrations), state project no. AAAA-A16-116021660095-7, and by research project of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University no. AAAA-A16-116021660077-3 (work on the manuscript).
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 6, pp. 643–648.
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Sidorov, A.V., Kolesnichenko, K.A. & Sviridov, A.V. Features of the Chorion Egg Structure in Nine Species of Underwing Moths Belonging to the Genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae). Entmol. Rev. 99, 615–620 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001387381905004X
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