A study on the biological characteristics of Telenomus acrobates (Hym.: Scelionidae), an egg parasitoid of Chrysoperla carnea (Neu.: Chrysopidae)

Talebi, Ali Asghar; SHAHPOURI ARANI, Sh.; Fathipour, Yaghoub; Moharramipour, Saeid

Authors

¹ Tarbiat Modares University

² Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University

Abstract

In this research morphology and some biological and behavioral characteristics of the parasitoid wasp, Telenomus acrobates Giard (Hym.: Scelionidae) as an egg parasitoid of Chrysoperla carnea (Steph.) (Neu.: Chrysopidae) were studied. Experiments were conducted in a growth chamber at constant temperature of 25 ± 0.5 ºC and 65 ± 5 % relative humidity with a 16:8 h (L:D) photoperiod. The results indicated that mean developmental time of female and male wasps were 11.54 ± 0.054 and 11.41 ± 0.027 days, respectively. The adult longevity of T. acrobates was 26.92 ± 1.59, 16.75 ± 0.69 and 1.04 ± 0.05 days in female and 12.77 ± 1.27, 6.5 ± 0.62 and 1.01 ± 0.04 day in male in three conditions with food, host egg and food, and without host egg and food respectively. In the host preference experiment, it was found that T. acrobates prefers one and two-day old eggs to three-day old ones. The functional response of T. acrobates was of type II. The handling time and searching efficiency estimated 0.059 and 1.675 respectively and the maximum parasitism showed to be 14.33. The seasonal egg parasitism of C. carnea was studied from May to September 2002. The percentage of parasitism and the percentage of female wasp to the whole collected eggs were 52.93 and 64.9 respectively.

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Volume 74, No. 1 - Serial Number 81
September 2006
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