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

Table 2

Average numbers of mature and submature eggs per female and length and width of mature eggs of A. shiranui.

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 6, 23	10 (1)	1.0 ± 2.83	5.5 ± 3.66	1.16 ± 0.08	0.37 ± 0.07
July 30, 31; Aug. 1	20 (0)	7.1 ± 3.55	6.2 ± 2.43	1.20 ± 0.04	0.39 ± 0.02
Oct. 14; Nov. 20	10 (0)	5.2 ± 1.87	3.7 ± 2.06	1.33 ± 0.05	0.39 ± 0.02

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