Egg Morphology Of Some Nolidae And Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) Author Dolinskaya, I. V text Vestnik Zoologii 2014 2014-12-01 48 6 553 561 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/vzoo-2014-0066 journal article 10.2478/vzoo-2014-0066 2073-2333 6453432 Dysgonia algira (Linnaeus, 1767) D e s c r i p t i o n. Egg subspherical ( fig. 21 ), height 0.7–0.8 mm , diameter 0.8–0.9 mm (n = 2). Chorion white, transparent. Chorion ridged, marked on two thirds surface. Micropylar area represented by rosette and 5 rows polygonal cells ( fig. 22 ). Rosette with 9-10 broad and short petalled cells and 5 micropylar openings, which located as star ( fig. 24 ). The clear transition between cells of micropylar area and remaining egg surface absent ( fig. 22 ). There are 34–37 slightly wavy, narrow longitudinal ridges with aeropyles at walls junctions. Transverse walls narrow and distinct as ridges. Chorion sharply pebbled everywhere ( fig. 23 ).