New Characters for Determining the Gender of Rhyacionia frustrana Pupae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

2008 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 753-759
Author(s):  
James D. Young ◽  
C. Wayne Berisford
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1930 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Floyd F. Smith ◽  
H. J. Fisher ◽  
T. L. Guyton

2006 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Young ◽  
C. Wayne Berisford ◽  
J. V. McHugh

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-104
Author(s):  
M. Leonard Wells ◽  
Daniel V. Hagan ◽  
Robert M. McPherson

1967 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 590-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Miller

AbstractThe Rhyacionia frustrana group of pine-tip moths consists of at least three species: true R. frustrana (Comstock), which occurs from Central America and northern Florida north to Missouri and Massachusetts; R. sonia n. sp., present from southern Maine west to southern Manitoba; and R. bushnelli Busck, which occurs from New Mexico north to Nebraska and eastern Montana. Adults of all three species are superficially identical. A lectotype is designated to establish the identity of R. frustrana, and R. sonia is described as new to science on the basis of markedly differing genitalia. R. bushnelli, long regarded as a domestic introduction of R. frustrana, seems more likely a distinct species endemic to the western plains because of its differing overwintering habit and size.


2000 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Orr ◽  
Charles P-C. Suh ◽  
Kenneth W. Mccravy ◽  
C. Wayne Berisford ◽  
Gary L. Debarr

AbstractInundative releases of Trichogramma exiguum Pinto and Platner were evaluated for suppression of the Nantucket pine tip moth, Rhyacionia frustrana (Comstock), in first-year loblolly pine, Pinus taeda L., plantations. Three releases, spaced 7 d apart, were made in three 0.4-ha plots during second-generation R. frustrana egg deposition. Each release included three cohorts of T. exiguum developmentally separated by 25 degree-days. Mean ± SD field release rate for each cohort was 328 238 ± 88 379 females/ha. Mean T. exiguum emergence under laboratory conditions for released cohorts was 96 ± 2%, with 74 ± 3% females, of which 1 ± 1% of females displayed brachyptery; female longevity was 18 ± 3 d. Field emergence averaged 96 ± 4%. Parasitism of R. frustrana eggs was significantly increased, ranging from 40 ± 19 to 73 ± 22% in T. exiguum-treated plots and 17 ± 17 to 67 ± 21% in control plots. Data from all treated plots combined showed R. frustrana egg survival (hatching) was significantly reduced by 46%, and larval populations were significantly reduced by 60%. There was no significant difference in the percentage of terminals damaged between T. exiguum-treated (31 ± 16%) and control plots (45 ± 10%); however, length of terminal damage was significantly lower in treated plots. The percentage of damage to top whorl shoots was significantly lower in T. exiguum-treated plots compared with control plots, but there was no significant difference in length of tunneling damage. Damage to remaining shoots was not significantly different between T. exiguum-treated and control plots. Microhabitat significantly influenced both mean maximum and minimum temperature and the number of consecutive hours per day that were at or above 35 °C (critical temperature for T. exiguum survival). Soil surface with no cover had the greatest number of hours at or above 35 °C, followed by soil surface with herbaceous cover, and canopies of small trees (0.4 m tall). Canopy habitats in larger trees (0.9–1.8 m tall) had the most moderate temperature conditions. Parasitoid emergence was significantly reduced in response to increasing number of consecutive hours at or above 35 °C. Predation of parasitoids prior to emergence was significantly affected by microhabitat and by the length of time capsules were in the field before T. exiguum emergence (i.e., cohort number).


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