scholarly journals Host selection is not expressed for underground hosts in a pupal parasitoid

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Toshinori Okuyama
2021 ◽  
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Florida López-Arriaga ◽  
César Pérez-Cruz ◽  
Patricia López ◽  
Salvador Flores ◽  
Jorge Cancino ◽  
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Gordana Đurović ◽  
Francine A. C. Van Neerbos ◽  
Sofie Bossaert ◽  
Beatriz Herrera-Malaver ◽  
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1974 ◽  
Vol 106 (8) ◽  
pp. 785-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. S. Olton ◽  
E. F. Legner

AbstractThe synonymy, distribution, host range, and life history of the gregarious larval–pupal parasitoid Tachinaephagus zealandicus Ashmead, is discussed. Laboratory studies of its biology were conducted at 25° ± 2 °C using Musca domestica L. as host. Its developmental stages are described. Under laboratory conditions its life cycle lasted 23–27 days. Parasitoid development accelerated with higher average densities per host. Single standardized hosts produced 3–18 adult parasitoids. Mated females provided with hosts lived 50.4–67.2 h. The average length of the reproductive period and number of hosts parasitized were independent of host density; however, the average number of eggs deposited per host increased at lower host densities. Adult emergence displayed circadian rhythmicity independent of photoperiod over 3+ days.


Microplectron fuscipennis , Zett., appears to be restricted for its host material to the European species of the Tenthredinid genus Diprion , Schrank. It has been recorded from D. sertifer , Geoffr., D. pini , L., D. pallidus , Kl., and, recently, from D. polytomum , Htg. The resting stage larva within the cocoon is attacked, oviposition occurring after the host has been paralysed. The present paper is an account of part of a more extensive programme of work on Microplectron which is being undertaken in view of the promising nature of the parasite and of its introduction into Canada. The biology of the species has been dealt with by Morris and Cameron (1935) and its reactions to changes in the physical environment by the present writer (Ullyett, 1936).


2006 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
GÉRALDINE LOOT ◽  
YOUNG-SEUK PARK ◽  
SOVAN LEK ◽  
SÉBASTIEN BROSSE

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