Androchela McQuillan, 1996

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

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1175­5334

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scientific name

Androchela McQuillan
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Androchela McQuillan View in CoL , (Figs 80–97)

Two species of this genus are illustrated. A. milvaria Guenée (Fig. 7) is polyphagous and widespread in Southern Australia. Although rarely collected, A. newmannaria Guenée occurs widely in Tasmania and also eastern Victoria. Another species, A. camptodes Turner occurs in Victoria (McQuillan 1996). The eggs are distinctively cuboidal in shape with planar sides and are laid with each egg touching its neighbour along the narrow lateral side in neat rows along the edge of the substrate. Cells are hexagonal, flat and with narrow, elevated walls. As in Amelora the aeropyles are conspicuous, domed and with moderately large to large openings. The chorion in both species is ridged and folded. The shape and configuration of these eggs resemble the eggs of Loweria Goldfinch and Dolabrossa McQuillan (see below). The planar sides of the eggs resemble those of the green Geometrinae (see below).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

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