Oviposition, Fecundity and Egg Structure of Eusarcocoris Capitatus Distant, A Pest of Ocimum Sanctum L.

A pentatomid bug, Eusarcocoris capitatus. eggs were deposited on the inflorescence, in between the flowers and seeds glued by a sticky secretion deposited by ovipositing female along with laid egg. Average 27.96 hrs pre-oviposition period was required and on an average of 55 eggs deposited life time. Newly laid egg was milky white, changed to dark red (0.44–0.62 mm length) before hatching. Its chorion was rough having elongated rod shaped many protuberances. on its cephalic end there was a ring of comma shaped 10 to 16 micropylar processes, each having cup like head, and a bent stem with internal canal which opened inside the egg through the chorion.