Caberini, Duponchel, 1845

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

Comment on Caberini

The Australian caberines in this study exemplify the features that typify the tribe (sensu Salkeld 1983). The most conspicuous feature of this group is the orderly arrangement of cells into longitudinal rows, as in the Boarmiini , but with more prominent lengthwise ribs, although this feature is most noticeable here in Rhinodia . Conspicuous longitudinal ribs are also a feature of some Nearctic lithinines such as Petrophora subaequaria Walker and Homochlodes fritillaria Guenée. The eggs are narrowly to broadly bluntly ovoid with the anterior pole sharply truncated. The surface is marked all over by flat, elongated and quadrate cells with narrow and elevated walls arranged in longitudinal rows. Aeropyles are elevated with small to moderately large openings and are absent from the middle of the top of the egg. In all eggs the chorion is generally smooth but shallowly wrinkled. The eggs of these species greatly resemble the Nearctic caberine Erastria cruentaria Hübner ( Salkeld 1983) .