Rhopalus, Stal, 1872

Vilímová, Jitka & Rohanová, Markéta, 2010, The external morphology of eggs of three Rhopalidae species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with a review of the eggs of this family, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 75-95 : 82

Rhopalus (A.) maculatus (Fieber, 1837)

Eggs are deposited singly, exposed on leaves and flowers of food plants, mostly Comarum palustre L. ( Rosaceae ) (food plants are listed in Table 2). Eggs are laid with the dorsal side toward leaf, parallel to substrate, glued by the female’s adhesive secretion, which stiffens shortly after oviposition into an irregularly shaped area. Most eggs were glued directly by their surface, approximately centrally on dorsal side, to the leaf/flower. However, in about 12 % of the eggs the solid secretion formed a columnar structure that resembled the chorionic stalk of Ch. schillingi . This structure, in the form of a ‘leglet’, elevates the egg above the surface. It is surely not of chorionic origin because it can be separated from the chorion, using only slight force, without damaging the egg.