Life Histories of Two Endangered Sea Skaters Halobates matsumurai Esaki and Asclepios shiranui (Esaki) (Hemiptera: Gerridae: Halobatinae)

Table 1

Average numbers of mature and submature eggs per female and length and width of mature eggs of H. matsumurai.

Date of sampling (2008)	𝑁^∗	No. (average ± S.D.) of eggs/female		Length and width (average ± S.D.) of mature egg
		Mature eggs	Submature eggs	Length (mm)	Width (mm)
June 23, 30; July 4	6 (1)	4.3 ± 4.84	1.8 ± 2.48	1.59 ± 0.01	0.53 ± 0.04
Aug. 1, 20	10 (0)	7.7 ± 3.16	4.1 ± 2.02	1.61 ± 0.09	0.52 ± 0.04
Sept. 17; Oct. 14	10 (1)	5.3 ± 2.63	3.0 ± 2.49	1.73 ± 0.10	0.59 ± 0.04

^*Number of females dissected. Values in parenthesis are the number of females with neither mature nor sub-mature eggs.