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| Itura aurita Ehrenberg, 1830 |
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| Itura aurita, dorsoventral view. Species with two wide-set red eyespots.(4) |
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| Itura aurita, same specimen; ventral view. Focal plane on the two wide-set red eyespots with lenses and the virgate trophi with external lamellae on the (alula of) ram . (4) |
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| Itura aurita, creeping specimen, dorsoventral view. In the stomach some digested zoochlorellae are visible as dark-brown pellets. (2) |
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Itura aurita, same specimen, compressed by coverslide. In the upper (left) part the virgate trophi can be seen. In contrast to Itura viridis the rami (alulae) have external lamellae on the outer side (see also image below)). Also visible is the retrocerebral sac with a red pigment spot in front. The excretory duct (arrowheads) of this retrocerebral sac is clearly longer in this species than in Itura viridis or Itura myersi, i.e. the retrocerebral sac is further posterior (2) |
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| Itura aurita, same specimen, two aspects of the anterior part with with wide-set red eyespots. Left: focal plane on two light-refracting bodies (lenses?); right: focal plane on a structure connecting the eyespots. (2) |
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| Itura aurita, virgate trophi with external lamella on rami (arrows). Left: crop of the above image; right: trophi of specimen from (4). |
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