Gastrinodes Warren, 1898

Young, Catherine J., 2006, Descriptions of the eggs of some southern Australian Geometridae (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 1287, pp. 1-294 : 1-294

Gastrinodes Warren (Figs 501–513)

Gastrinodes is confined to southern Australia and consists of two endemic described species and at least one undescribed species. Gastrinodes eggs are narrow to very narrow and elongated and bluntly ovoid. The chorion is soft and smooth and overlain by a dense mesh­like reticulation. The egg surface is marked all over by quadrate to elongated hexagonal cells with moderately broad, rounded and elevated walls. The cells are arranged regularly in longitudinal rows. Aeropyles are elevated and domed with moderately large openings and present on all egg surfaces. In Gastrinodes sp. the anterior pole cells are defined by multiple aeropyles as in the archiearine Acalyphes sp. , the nacophorines, Chlenias ‘ banksiaria’ and C. seminigra , and in the Nearctic species Caripeta divisata Walker ( Ourapterygini : Ennominae ) and Xanthorhoe packardata ( Xanthorhoini : Larentiinae ) ( Salkeld 1983). The rosette cells are recessed. The eggs of bitaeniaria were also illustrated by McFarland (1972) with both low magnification photographs and SEM micrographs.