Agathemera luteola, Camousseight 2005

Cubillos, Claudio & Vera, Alejandro, 2020, Comparative morphology of the eggs from the eight species in the genus Agathemera Stål (Insecta: Phasmatodea), through phylogenetic comparative method approach, Zootaxa 4803 (3), pp. 523-543 : 528

A. luteola Camousseight 2005

(n=18) ( Fig. 5 : a1,2)

The egg elongation expressed as the height/length ratio is 49 ± 3% and the lateral flattening as the width/height ratio is 91 ± 4%. The general egg shape is ellipsoidal, flattened towards the anterior pole (10). The capsule colour is brown (20), and homogeneously rugose (83.3%) or slightly rugose (16.7%) throughout its extension (32). The texture of the micropylar plate is rugose (52) with acuminate shape (41), edges above the capsule plane (60) and brown (70). The internal micropylar plate is open (80) and brown as well as the external capsule surface. The opercular angle is -29.62 ±2.97°. The shape of the operculum is orbicular (90), its coloration is brown (100) and rugose texture (111).

Ultrastructure ( Fig. 7 : a1,2): Capsule ultrastructure surface with tubercles irregularly distribute (120). The micropylar plate ultrastructure surface is cracked (130), and its edges are above the plane of the capsule. No micropylar cup veil is observed (141). Opercular surface with tubercles as well as the rest of the capsule (150).

Figures

FIGURE 5. External morphology of the eggs from clade 1 and their respective operculum. a1-e1, dorsal view; a2-e2 operculum. The order of the eggs and operculum from right to left is A. luteola, A. maculafulgens, A. crassa. A. millepunctata, A. claraziana (escale = 1mm).

FIGURE 7. Ultrastructure surface of the micropylar plate of the eggs from clade 1 and their respective operculum. A1-E1, micropylar plate ultrastructure; A2-E2 ultrastructure surface of the operculum. The order of the micropylar plates and operculum from top to bottom is A. luteola, A. maculafulgens, A. crassa. A. millepunctata, A. claraziana.