Comportamiento de oviposición de Phymastichus coffea LaSalle (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) sobre su huésped natural

Comportamiento de oviposición de Phymastichus coffea LaSalle (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) sobre su huésped natural

Phymastichus coffea LaSalle is an African endoparasitoid of adults of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) that was introduced into Mexico for biological control purposes. The objective of this study was to investigate the oviposition behavior of P. coffea on its host under laborato...

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Veröffentlicht in:Neotropical entomology 2010-12, Vol.39 (6), p.892-897
Hauptverfasser: López-Guillén, Guillermo(El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Depto de Entomología Tropical), Infante, Francisco(El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Depto de Entomología Tropical), Castillo, Alfredo(El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Depto de Entomología Tropical)
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Sprache:eng
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Biological control
Hypothenemus hampei
parasitoid
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Zusammenfassung:Phymastichus coffea LaSalle is an African endoparasitoid of adults of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) that was introduced into Mexico for biological control purposes. The objective of this study was to investigate the oviposition behavior of P. coffea on its host under laboratory conditions. The results indicate that P. coffea females exhibited 12 behavioral acts during and after oviposition, such as, walking, cleaning, flying, surface landing, resting, host landing, host antennation, touching the host with forelegs, host recognition, walking on the host, oviposition and cleaning after oviposition. The sequence of each behavior is described in an ethogram.
ISSN:1519-566X
1678-8052
DOI:10.1590/S1519-566X2010000600007