Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])

Dolinskaya, I. V., 2014, Egg Morphology Of Some Noctuidae (Lepidoptera), Vestnik Zoologii 48 (4), pp. 353-364 : 363

Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, [1808])

D e s c r i p t i o n. Egg subspherical ( fig. 33 ), height 0.3 mm, diameter 0.55 mm (n = 4). Just laid egg have citron colour. Egg becomes pale brown with development. Before caterpillar emergence egg becoming grey, with grey-purple spot in apical part. Morphologically similar to Heliothis maritima ( fig. 34 ). However, in contrast to previous species combs on longitudinal edges are not expressed ( fig. 35 ).

O v i p o s i t i o n. Eggs were laid solitary.

Figures

Fig. 31–36. Eggs of Heliothinae: 31–32 — Heliothis maritima; 33–35 — Helicoverpa armigera; eggs of Condicinae: 36 — Eucarta amethystina. Scale bars: 33, 36 — 100 µm. 31, 32, 34–35 — 10 µm.