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Bioenergetics of Apanteles flavipes Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a parasitoid of Porthesia scintillans Walker (Lepidoptera: Lymantridae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

M. Senthamizhselvan  and
J. Muthukrishnan
M. Senthamizhselvan
Affiliation:
P.G. Department of Zoology, A.P.A. College, Palni 624 602, India
J. Muthukrishnan
Affiliation:
P.G. Department of Zoology, A.P.A. College, Palni 624 602, India
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Abstract

Apanteles flavipes is a gregarious endoparasitoid of Porthesia scintillans. A new method for the estimation of energy available to the parasitoid is presented and used to prepare an individual energy budget for A. flavipes. A. flavipes consumes 13.9 J of the host tissue and assimilates 13.4 J. Production amounted to 10.1 J. Efficiencies of assimilation and production are 96.2 and 753 % respectively. Metamorphic metabolic rate was 0.555 kJ/g/day.

Résumé

Apanteles flavipes est une endoparasitoïde gregarieuse du Porthesia scintillans. On propose ici une nouvelle méthode pour l'éstimation de l'énergie available pour la parasitoïde et le budget de l'énergie individuelle. A. flavipes consomme 13.9 J du tissus-hôte et assimile 13.4 J Production est 10.1 J. Efficacités d'assimilations et de production sont 96.2% et 753% respectativement. Le rate de métamorphique metabolism est 0.555 kJ/g/jour.

Keywords

Food consumptionbioenergeticsparasitoidApanteles flavipes
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Research Articles
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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , June 1989 , pp. 295 - 299
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Copyright © ICIPE 1989

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