title: [Egg, larva and in the first stage of the female genital tract of the Chabuata castanea moth (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)].
abstract: Egg, first larval stage and female genitalia of the moth Chabuata castanea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Egg, first larval stage, and female genitalia of the widely distributed moth Chabuata castanea are described, based on material from Talcahuano, VIII region, Chile. Egg microestructures are illustrated with scannig electron microscope images which show that egg morphology allows identification to species level.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Concepción, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Departamento de Zoología, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile. marcrodr@udec.cl
authors.forename: Marcela A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Angulo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002677:Chile; D005260:Female; D005836:Genitalia, Female / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007814:Larva / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000166:cytology; D009036:Moths / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D010063:Ovum / Q000166:cytology*