Cryphia fraudatricula (Hübner, [1803])

Dolinskaya, I. V., 2014, Egg Morphology Of Some Noctuidae (Lepidoptera), Vestnik Zoologii 48 (4), pp. 353-364 : 363

Cryphia fraudatricula (Hübner, [1803])

D e s c r i p t i o n. Egg subspherical ( fig. 39–41 ). Egg white.

Chorion not ridged. Micropylar area represented by rosette and 1 row indistinct, long, narrow and pointed cells ( fig. 42 ). Rosette very elevated with 12–13 long and narrow cells ( fig. 43–44 ). Walls of rosette cells flat and strongly elevated, especially in middle part ( fig. 45 ). Sculpture starry, very typical ( fig. 46 ). Pattern looks like high, narrow-angled tubercles, each of which urrounded by same 6–7 tubercles. All tubercles interconnected by bent edges ( fig. 47–48 ).

O v i p o s i t i o n. Eggs solitary laid.

Figures

Fig. 37–42. Eggs of Condicinae: 37–38 — Eucarta amethystina; eggs of Bryophilinae: 39–42 — Cryphia fraudatricula. Scale bars: 39–41 — 100 µm; 37–38, 42 — 10 µm.

Fig. 43–48. Eggs of Bryophilinae, Cryphia fraudatricula: 43–45 — micropylar area; 46 — sculpture of egg chorion; 47 — each of tubercles is surrounded by same 6–7 tubercles; 48 — single tubercle. Scale bars 10 µm.