Arthropoda Grazia 1980

Pallantia macunaim

(Figs. 87–90; Tab. 2)

Eggs barrel-shaped, light brown to greenish; operculum flat to slightly convex; chorion white-translucent, with great amount of thin prolongations (Grazia & Frey-da-Silva 2001; Panizzi & Grazia 2001). Aero-micropylar processes long and filiform.

In SEM, chorion spinose: the whole surface is covered by long and thin spines (Figs. 87, 88), with different heights and connected to each other by fine sheets (Fig. 89). The more or less hexagonal reticulations underlying the thin prolongations, as described by Grazia & Frey-da-Silva (2001), were not observed. At oval area where the egg is fixed to another in the egg mass, a substance recovers the spines and distorts the sculpture pattern (Fig. 87). Surface sculpture pattern at operculum does not differ from the lateral wall; the eclosion line is not visible before hatching (Fig. 88). Aero-micropylar processes tubular, longer in larger diameter than the chorionic spines, with a circular apical opening (Fig. 90).