Odmalea basalis

(Figs. 8, 9, 91, 92; Tab. 2)

Eggs with flat lateral walls, bright green; operculum circular and flat; chorion translucent, with nearly smooth surface, inconspicuously granulated; aero-micropylar processes translucent, filiform and only slightly enlarged at apex (Figs. 8, 9).

In SEM, chorion surface granulated, marked by numerous circular projections, rough at lateral wall of the egg, superposing each other and granting the chorion a rugose aspect (Figs. 91, 92). At anterior pole, granules are smaller and more numerous at the periphery of operculum; larger and scarcer at its center (Fig. 91). The eclosion line is very clear and well marked by a smooth strip; aero-micropylar processes surrounding the operculum but eventually over it (Fig. 91). Aero-micropylar processes tubular, with a long basal portion in less diameter and an apical portion slightly enlarged, with an opening; surface of processes flat (Fig. 92).