Fig. 2.

Ornithocephalus gladiatus, TEM. (A) Elaiophore cell wall with bi-layered cuticle comprising an outer lamellate layer and an inner reticulate layer. A lipid droplet (asterisk) is present on the surface of the elaiophore and the parietal cytoplasm contains abundant ER. (B) The cytoplasm of the elaiophore cell contains elaioplasts, lipid droplets and mitochondria. (C) Elaioplasts of irregular shape contain lipid droplets. (D) Starch (arrows) is present in the plastids at bud stage. (E) Elaioplast and small, intravacuolar myelin-like figures. (F) Detail of elaioplast, with dark stroma and lipid droplets, intravacuolar, myelin-like figures, and cytoplasm with abundant ER. Scale bars = 1 µm. See Fig. 1 for abbreviations.