Pechipogo strigilata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dolinskaya, I. V, 2014, Egg Morphology Of Some Nolidae And Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), Vestnik Zoologii 48 (6), pp. 553-561 : 555

Pechipogo strigilata (Linnaeus, 1758)

D e s c r i p t i o n. Egg subspherical ( fig. 6 ), diameter 0.7 mm (n = 2).

Chorion not ridged, marked by cells on two thirds surface ( fig. 7 ). Clear transition between cells of micropylar area and remaining egg surface absent. Rosette with 12 long and narrow petalled cells ( fig. 7 ). Cells with thin walls, arranged irregularly on chorion. Aeropyles small, slightly expressed at walls junctions ( fig. 8 ).

R e m a r k. Egg surface cells located not like radial lines as those in Noctuidae but chaotically, that typical for eggs of Notodontidae , Lymantriidae and Arctiidae .

Figures

Fig. 1–6. Eggs of Nolidae, Chloephorinae: 1–5 — Pseudoips prasinana. Eggs of Erebidae, Hermeniinae: 6 — Pechipogo strigilata. Scale bars: 1, 3, 6 — 100 µm; 2, 5 — 1000 µm; 4 — 10 µm.

Fig.7–12. Eggs of Erebidae:Hermeniinae:7, 8 — Pechipogo strigilata; Hypeninae:9–11 — Hypena proboscidalis; Phytometrinae: 12 — Colobochyla salicalis. Scale bars: 7–11 — 10 µm; 12 — 100 µm.