ovipara

noun

1. (plural, plural-only)oviparous organisms
2. An aphid in its oviparous form.

   “The ratios of mean eggs laid/mean oviparae produced for the two groups relate to the mean weights of oviparae in those groups (Fig. 32) and a linear relationship is assumed between the points. The number of eggs laid by each ovipara of the heavier group is approximately 80% of its egg complement, using Brown’s (1975) results from dissections of oviparae of similar weight.”

   “Crema (1969) reported that nine short-day photoperiods were required to switch the vetch aphid from virginopara to ovipara production and that the embryos were determined as virginoparae or oviparae on about the fourteenth day of their development, at which time they had fully formed but undetermined germaria.”