Effect of Female Body Size and Adult Feeding on the Fecundity and Longevity of the Parasitoid &lt;I&gt;Cephalonomia stephanoderis&lt;/I&gt; Betrem (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae)

Lauzière, Isabelle; Pérez‐Lachaud, Gabriela; Brodeur, Jacques

doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[0103:eofbsa]2.0.co;2

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“…Laboratory studies have demonstrated that parasitoids fed with honey or sugary solutions have their longevity and/or fecundity increased (Syme 1977;Hagley & Barber 1992;Leatemia et al 1995;Siekmann et al 2001;Sisterson & Averill 2002). In the case of C. stephanoderis, laboratory studies demonstrated that diluted honey extends adult survivorship up to 80% (Abraham et al 1990;Barrera et al 1993;Lauzière et al 2000). Our results confirm this observations and clearly establishes that survivorship of honey-deprived insects is severely decreased, since none of them last more than eight days.…”

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Influence of age and diet on the performance of Cephalonomia stephanoderis (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) a parasitoid of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Gómez¹,

Barrera²,

Liedo³

et al. 2012

Rev. Bras. entomol.

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Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 56(1): 95-100, março, 2012 The coffee berry borer (CBB), Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), is the most important insect pest for coffee growers in tropical America. This species spends most of its life feeding inside the coffee berries, affecting the quantity and quality of coffee. Cephalonomia stephanoderis Betrem (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) is an African parasitoid that has been introduced in several Latin American and Caribbean countries during the past 20 years for biological control of H. hampei (Barrera et al. 1990a(Barrera et al. , 1990bMurphy & Moore 1990;Baker 1999). C. stephanoderis is a solitary ectoparasitoid that attacks eggs, larvae, prepupae and pupae of H. hampei. Female parasitoid enters into the infested fruit through the CBB entrance hole and if there is enough host population, it establishes there permanently. The female parasitoid feeds on all developing stages of the coffee borer and starts parasitizing prepupae or pupae only until it has developed mature eggs. After the onset of the oviposition period, parental females remain with their broods until completion of offspring development. Young C. stephanoderis females disperse after mating and search for new hosts to repeat the cycle. It is assumed that females can feed on sugary substances if the searching period is prolonged. It takes from 16 to 20 days at 27°C for the parasitoid to develop from egg to adult. Female parasitoids live longer than males, and oviposit an average of 66 eggs during a lifetime of 80 days (Barrera et al. 1989(Barrera et al. , 1993Abraham et al. 1990;Lauzière et al. 2001).Several field studies have been performed to assess the impact of inoculative and inundative releases of C. stephanoderis Influence of age and diet on the performance of Cephalonomia stephanoderis (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) a parasitoid of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) ABSTRACT. Influence of age and diet on the performance of Cephalonomia stephanoderis (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) a parasitoid of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). The importance of age and feeding on the performance of Cephalonomia stephanoderis (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), a parasitoid of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) was investigated in the laboratory. Groups of female parasitoids were subject to the following treatments: a group fed during one, five and ten days after emergence of adults with coffee borer larvae; another group fed only with honey solution during five days after emergence; and as a control, a third group was kept without food for five days. At the end of each treatment, survivorship, parasitoid activity (walking and flying capacity in an arena), search capacity for finding coffee borer-infested berries, host feeding and oviposition (on immature hosts), were assessed. Unfed females showed a significant decrease in survivorship compared to individuals that were fed. The type of meal (insec...

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“…In the case of C. stephanoderis, host feeding considerably increased female longevity, when they fed on immature stages of CBB for more than one month, than when fed with honey (Lauzière et al 2000). Nevertheless, in shorter periods, there are no significant differences in survivorship between insects fed with the two types of diet.…”

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Influence of age and diet on the performance of Cephalonomia stephanoderis (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) a parasitoid of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Gómez¹,

Barrera²,

Liedo³

et al. 2012

Rev. Bras. entomol.

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“…However, longevity in G. agilis was only extended when honey solution was available, revealing that host fluids play little or no role in metabolic maintenance of this species. Studies with other host-feeding parasitoid species have reported that longevity is extended when female wasps are allowed to feed on both host fluids and honey or sugar solution (Heimpel et al 1997;Lauziere et al 2000), whereas in other species there is no apparent benefit of host-feeding on longevity (Giron et al 2004;Rivero and West 2005). Sources of carbohydrates in the local environment, such as floral nectar, are thus likely to be an important factor in sustaining populations of many host-and non-host-feeding parasitoids (Wäckers 2001).…”

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Comparing and contrasting development and reproductive strategies in the pupal hyperparasitoids Lysibia nana and Gelis agilis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Harvey

2007

Evol Ecol

104

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In most animals, the optimal phenotype is determined by trade-offs in lifehistory traits. Here, I compare development and reproductive strategies in two species of solitary secondary hyperparasitoids, Lysibia nana and Gelis agilis, attacking pre-pupae of their primary parasitoid host, Cotesia glomerata. Parasitoid larvae of both species exploit a given amount of host resources with similar efficiency. However, adults exhibit quite different reproductive strategies. Both species are synovigenic, and female wasps emerge with no mature eggs. However, G. agilis must first host-feed to produce eggs, while L. nana does not host-feed but mobilizes internal resources carried over from larval feeding to initiate oogenesis. Further, G. agilis is wingless, produces large eggs, has a long life-span, and generates only small numbers of progeny per day, whereas these traits are reversed in L. nana. Given unlimited hosts, the fecundity curve in L. nana was ''front-loaded,'' whereas in G. agilis it was depressed and extended over much of adult life. In L. nana (but not G. agilis), wasps provided with honey but no hosts lived significantly longer than wasps provided with both honey and hosts. Differences in the fecundity curves of the two hyperparasitoids are probably based on differing costs of reproduction between them, with the wingless G. agilis much more constrained in finding hosts than the winged L. nana. Importantly, L. nana is known to be a specialist hyperparasitoid of gregarious Cotesia species that pupate in exposed locations on the food plant, whereas Gelis sp. attack and develop in divergent hosts such as parasitoid cocoons, moth pupae and spider egg sacs. Consequently, there is a strong match between brood size in C. glomerata and egg production in L. nana, but a mismatch between these parameters in G. agilis.

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“…Furthermore, however, we hypothesize that differences in host-tree species and/or condition, environmental conditions (i.e., temperature), and/or provisioning of food, including foliage, may have contributed to the longer life span and/or higher reproductive rate of A. glabripennis in the current study. Furthermore, total fecundity has been shown to increase with female body size (Lauziere et al 2000), speciÞcally for Plocaederus obesus Gahan (Cerambycidae) (Khan 1993) and Semanotus japonicus Lacordaire (Cerambycidae) (Kato et al 2000). Therefore, the large body size of A. glabripennis may have also contributed to higher rates of fecundity when compared with other lamiines.…”

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Age-Specific Fecundity ofAnoplophora glabripennis(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) on Three Tree Species Infested in the United States

2002

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Effect of Female Body Size and Adult Feeding on the Fecundity and Longevity of the Parasitoid <I>Cephalonomia stephanoderis</I> Betrem (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae)

Cited by 35 publications

References 23 publications

Influence of age and diet on the performance of Cephalonomia stephanoderis (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) a parasitoid of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Influence of age and diet on the performance of Cephalonomia stephanoderis (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) a parasitoid of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Comparing and contrasting development and reproductive strategies in the pupal hyperparasitoids Lysibia nana and Gelis agilis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Age-Specific Fecundity ofAnoplophora glabripennis(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) on Three Tree Species Infested in the United States

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