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Euloxia fugitivaria Guenee 1857

Description

Euloxia fugitivaria Guenée (Figs 799–806)

(type species)

Oviposition

2♀ code nos.: G380, G387

Oviposition period: 14–21 Oct.

Batch size: 4–21; (n = 3)

Realised fecundity: 12–25

Incubation time (days): 10

Batch configuration and attachment: Firmly attached, singly (Fig. 799). In nature eggs are laid near leaf margins (McFarland 1988).

Colour: Yellow, shiny, becoming dark yellow (Fig. 799) then transparent grey on maturity.

Size (mm) (n=10): L = 0.66 ± 0.01, W = 0.47 ± 0.00, T = 0.32 ± 0.01.

Width/length: 0.69

No. of females: 1

Aeropylar opening size (m) (n=7): L = 1.92 ± 0.05, W = 1.61 ± 0.61.

Relative aeropylar opening size: 4.9

Micropyles: Indistinct (Figs 800 & 801)

No. of openings: 5

No. of cells in rosette: 10

No. of rows of cells in micropylar area: 5

Shape: Narrow, elongated, compressed dorso­ventrally with narrow flat lateral sides perpendicular to wide flat lateral sides (pill­box shaped) but edges rounded, ellipsoid from top view, egg wedge­shaped laterally (Figs 799, 800, 802 & 803).

Characteristics: Egg marked on all surfaces by flat, hexagonal cells with very narrow, slightly elevated walls (Figs 800, 802–804). Aeropyles slightly elevated, openings moderately large, distributed around edges of egg only (Figs 805 & 806). Rosette cells slightly recessed (Fig. 801). Chorion generally smooth, finely, shallowly wrinkled (Fig. 805).

Notes

Published as part of Young, Catherine J., 2006, Descriptions of the eggs of some southern Australian Geometridae (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-294 in Zootaxa 1287 on pages 1-294

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Geometridae
Genus
Euloxia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Guenee
Species
fugitivaria
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Euloxia fugitivaria Guenee, 1857 sec. Young, 2006

References

  • McFarland, N. (1988) Portraits of South Australian Geometrid Moths, Allen Press, Kansas.