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NEW DESCRIPTIONS OF LARVAE OF FOREST INSECTS, VI, SEMIOTHISA, PARAPHIA, PROTOBOARMIA (LEPIDOPTERA, GEOMETRIDAE)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. C. McGuffin
W. C. McGuffin
Affiliation:
Ottawa, Ontario
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Extract

Egg: Ovate in shape, bluish green in colour, the surface divided by reticulations into small hexagonal areas. Laid singly on the needles of host tree.

First Instar: Head width 0.23 mm. Body 2.0 mm. in length and 0.23 mm. in width Brownish green body with light brown head.

Second Instar: Head width 0.5 mm. Body 4.6 mm. in length and 0.5 mm. in width. Body lined alternately with green and light green stripes. Spiracular line greenish white. Head brownish green.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 75 , Issue 7 , July 1943 , pp. 134 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1943

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References

† H. G. Dyar, in Psyche, 11:105, 1904, described the form of this larva found in British Columbia.