Chlorocoma Turner, 1910

Young, Catherine J., 2006, Descriptions of the eggs of some southern Australian Geometridae (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 1287, pp. 1-294 : 1-294

Chlorocoma Turner (Figs 773–798)

Chlorocoma is widespread throughout southern Australia. Twenty­two species are listed for this genus in Australia of which, the eggs of three species, are described. The eggs of the Chlorocoma spp. described here are very similar and difficult to distinguish. All have the planar surfaces of the characteristic green geometrine pill­box shaped egg with slightly rounded rims. C. vertumnaria Guenée and C. externa are almost identical in shape and general morphology. The eggs of C. dichloraria Guenée are more elliptical in shape and the chorion is regularly pitted. The eggs of C. assimilis Lucas , C. haplochlora Meyrick and C. melocrossa Meyrick ( McFarland 1988) all have very similarly shaped eggs to those described here.