HOST REFUGES AND SPATIAL PATTERNS OF PARASITISM IN AN ENDOPHYTIC HOST PARASITOID SYSTEM

被引：29

作者：

ROMSTOCKVOLKL, M

机构：

[1] Department of Animal Ecology I, University of Bayreuth

来源：

ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY | 1990年 / 15卷 / 03期

关键词：

Density‐dependence; Eurytoma; host location; ovipositor length; patchiness; Pteromalus; searching; Tephritis;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1365-2311.1990.tb00814.x

中图分类号：

Q96 [昆虫学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Abstract. 1. Larvae of Tephritis conura Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae) live gregariously in flower heads of Cirsium heterophyllum (L.) Hill (Cardueae). They are attacked by the endoparasitic wasps Eurytoma sp. near tibialis Boheman (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) and Pteromalus caudiger (Graham) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). 2. The responses of the parasitoids to different host patch sizes were investigated from the analysis of field samples. At the host population level, overall probabilities of parasitism were independent of host numbers per flower head or showed a tendency to inverse density‐dependence for both parasitoid species. 3. Measurements of ovipositor length in Eurytoma and P.caudiger indicated that parts of the flower head constitute a structural refuge from parasitism. 4. The accessibility of hosts in a flower head was found to differ markedly, depending on larval locations and flower head characters. In spite of this high variability, similar average percentages of larvae were accessible to the parasitoids in each patch size class. 5. High variability of oviposition success in laboratory experiments can be explained by random locations of hosts in the flower heads. Copyright © 1990, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

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