The female laid round white eggs singly but also in pair either on the fruits or on the stalk and sometimes on the upper surface of leaves. The incubation, larval, prepupal, pupal periods were 9.2 ± 0.72, 35.3 ± 1.88, 3.4 ± 0.45 and 14.5 ± 2.79 days, respectively. Fecundity, pre-ovipositionand oviposition periods were 27.4 ± 3.30, 1.2 ± 0.42 and 3.6 ± 1.07 days, respectively. The longevity of male and female was 6.7 ± 1.15 and 10.5 ± 1.08 days, respectively. The average sex ratio of females to males was 1.80:1 ± 0.07.
Biology, Deudorix isocrates, Emblica officinalis
