FIGURES 5–8 in Morphology and Postdepositional Dynamics of Eggs of the Predator Podisus distinctus (Stål) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae)

FIGURES 5–8. Eggs of Podisus distinctus (Stål) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Fig. 5. Mature egg, four hours after laying with completely erect spine-like projections above the operculum and aero-micropylar processes. Fig. 6. Mature egg, two-day-old after laying with radially positioned spine-like projections emanating from the base of the posterior pole. Fig. 7. Mature egg, two-day-old after laying showing bound spine-like projections on the egg lateral aspect (arrowhead) and smooth aeromicropylar processes (arrow). Fig. 8. Mature egg, two-day-old after laying with eclosion line (EL) internal to the aeromicropylar processes. The region has no signs of spine-like projections and is surrounded by a row of short spine-like projections (arrow), followed by the operculum long spine-like projections (arrowhead).