Acalyphes sp.

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

Acalyphes sp. (Figs 8–15)

Oviposition

1♀ code nos.: G474.

Oviposition period: May.

Batch size: 20

Realised fecundity: 20

Incubation time (days): 24 (n=1)

Batch configuration and attachment: Weakly attached, singly.

Colour: Green, transparent on maturity (Figs 8 & 9).

Size (mm): (n=1) L = 0.92, W = 0.72 ± 0.00

Width/length: 0.78

No. of females: 1

Aeropylar opening size (m) (n=5): L = 1.35 ± 0.06, W = 1.33 ± 0.06.

Relative aeropylar opening size: 1.5

Micropyles: Distinct (Figs 10 & 11)

No. of openings: 8

No. of cells in rosette: 11

No. of rows of cells in micropylar area: 5

Shape: Moderately broad, bluntly ovoid, truncated anterior pole, dorso­ventrally flattened, anterior pole slightly angled to the micropylar axis (Fig. 12).

Characteristics: Egg marked on all surfaces by hexagonal, flat cells with narrow, shallowly reticulated walls, micropylar cells slightly shingled, overlapping (Figs 12, 13 & 15). Aeropyles slightly elevated, openings small, present on all surfaces apart from top of egg on wider lateral side, multiply arranged in rows along the sides of cell walls (Figs 12 & 14). Rosette, secondary cells recessed (Figs 10 & 11). Chorion generally rough, wrinkled, cobbled (Figs 14 & 15); micropylar cells not cobbled (Figs 10 & 11).