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Quality control of Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) reared on the factitious host Corcyra cephalonica (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) for successive generations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2017

A.P. Queiroz ,
A. de Freitas Bueno ,
A. Pomari-Fernandes ,
M.L.M. Grande ,
O.C. Bortolotto  and
D.M. da Silva
A.P. Queiroz
Affiliation:
Instituto Agronômico do Paraná – IAPAR, 86051-990, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
A. de Freitas Bueno*
Affiliation:
Embrapa Soja, Laboratório de Parasitoides, 86001-970, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
A. Pomari-Fernandes
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul – UFFS, 85301-970, Laranjeiras do Sul, Paraná, Brazil
M.L.M. Grande
Affiliation:
Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Agronomia, 86051-990, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
O.C. Bortolotto
Affiliation:
Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Agronomia, 86051-990, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
D.M. da Silva
Affiliation:
Instituto Agronômico do Paraná – IAPAR, 86051-990, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
*
*Author for correspondence Phone: +55 (43) 3371-6208 Fax: +55 (43) 3371-6100 E-mail: adeney.bueno@embrapa.br
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Abstract

Egg parasitoid rearing on factitious hosts is an important step to reduce costs and increase availability of the biocontrol agent but it requires quality control to achieve success in field conditions. To this end, this study evaluated the quality of Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) reared on Corcyra cephalonica (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) for until 45 generations. In the first bioassay, we evaluated the body size of the laboratory-produced parasitoids. In the second bioassay, flight activity was examined, measuring the percentage of ‘flyers’, ‘walkers’ and ‘deformed’ parasitoids. The third bioassay assessed parasitism on Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) eggs. Our data indicate that the laboratory-reared parasitoid neither lost its ability to fly nor to parasitize S. frugiperda eggs. In conclusion, quality did not decrease significantly during 45 generations, and therefore rearing of T. remus on C. cephalonica as factitious host promises to be successful.

Keywords

biological controlfactitious hostegg parasitoidmass rearing
Type
Research Papers
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 107 , Issue 6 , December 2017 , pp. 791 - 798
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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