Abstract
Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are vectors of several arboviruses responsible for causing dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever viruses and microcephaly, resulting in a public health problem in several countries worldwide. Even in this scenario, studies on the morphology of mosquito eggs are still lacking. In this paper, X-ray microtomography was used to study mosquito egg morphology. Several parameters such as length, surface area, volume, area-by-volume ratio, eccentricity and center of mass of the eggs were determined. The results obtained showed that micro-CT is an efficient technique for the morphological study of insect eggs and provides information that cannot be obtained with other techniques.
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