Functional surface structures on the eggs of stick and leaf insects (Insecta: Phasmatodea)

Functional surface structures on the eggs of stick and leaf insects (Insecta: Phasmatodea)

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Volume 166 of Zoologica represents the first extensive comparative study of the egg surface morphology of stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea). The eggs of 314 representative species are compared and described in detail, with particular focus on the functional surface structures. This study combines a review of egg surface structures of 126 taxa visualised in various literature sources and adds scanning electron microscopy investigations of 188 taxa visualised for the first time. The eggs of Phasmatodea stand out among insects, because of the mineralization of the layered egg shell. This egg s...