Euloxia meandraria Guenée, 1857

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

Euloxia meandraria Guenée (Figs 807–813)

Oviposition

1♀ code nos.: G497

Oviposition period: 12–18 Mar.

Batch size: 3–9; (n = 3)

Realised fecundity: 20

Incubation time (days): 10

Batch configuration and attachment: Attached, singly.

Colour: Light green to darker green, then transparent grey on maturity.

Size (mm) (n=10): L = 0.76 ± 0.01, W = 0.57 ± 0.00, T = 0.31 ± 0.01.

Width/length: 0.75

No. of females: 1

Aeropylar opening size (m): Aeropyles not visible

Micropyles: Indistinct (Figs 807 & 808)

No. of openings: 5

No. of cells in rosette: 6

No. of rows of cells in micropylar area: 8

Shape: Moderately broad, bluntly ovoid compressed dorso­ventrally with narrow flat lateral sides perpendicular to wide flat lateral sides (pill­box shaped) but edges rounded, ellipsoid from top view (Figs 807 & 808), egg sub­rectangular laterally (Fig. 810).

Characteristics: Egg marked on all surfaces by faintly discernible, flat, hexagonal cells with narrow, slightly elevated walls (Figs 807, 809–812). Aeropyles not visible. Micropylar cells slightly recessed, micropyles indistinct (Fig. 808). Chorion generally smooth, regularly, deeply pitted (Figs 811–813).