Larentiinae (Salkeld, 1983)

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

Comment on Larentiinae

Once again, as found by Salkeld (1983) with Nearctic larentiines, the eggs of the Australian larentiines examined here are a diverse group in terms of shape and general morphology. Shape ranges from the unusual pyramidal eggs in Chrysolarentia to narrowly elongated and elliptical cell form in Aponotoreas . The ultrastructure of the egg is also diverse. Chorionic structure ranges from well­defined concave cell form with conspicuous domed aeropyles in Euphyia to the almost completely featureless eggs of Chrysolarentia . One consistent feature lacking in the Larentiinae that is found in all other major subfamilies apart from Oencochrominae s. str. and the Geometrinae , as also noted by Salkeld (1983) in Nearctic larentiines, is the absence of the regular arrangement of cells into longitudinal rows. No other features can be considered as characteristic of the subfamily based on current data.