Anais da Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil (1999) 28, 485-490

Luís A. Foerster, Augusta K. Doetzer and Marion R.F. Avanci (1999)
Capacidade Reprodutiva e Longevidade de Glyptapanteles muesebecki (Blanchard) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Parasitando Lagartas de Pseudaletia sequax Franclemont (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
[Reproductive capacity and longevity of Glyptapanteles muesebecki (Blanchard) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing larvae of Pseudaletia sequax Franclemont (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)]
Anais da Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil 28 (3), 485-490
Abstract: The reproductive capacity of Glyptapanteles muesebecki (Blanchard) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was studied in the laboratory (20° ± 1°C; 12 hours of photophase) using second-instar larvae of Pseudaletia sequax Franclemont (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) as hosts. Females lived an average of 8.4 days when exposed to five caterpillars/day, compared to 20.6 days in the absence of hosts. Females of G. muesebecki parasitized an average of 20.8 caterpillars during their life time, producing a total of 666.8 descendants. Daily parasitism was 3.6 hosts/female in the first day after emergence and above two hosts/female until the eighth day. Up to five caterpillars were able to be parasitized by a female in a 24-hour period.
(The abstract is excluded from the Creative Commons licence and has been copied with permission by the publisher.)
(original language: Portuguese)
Full text of article

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
biocontrol - natural enemies
Research topic(s) for beneficials or antagonists:
general biology - morphology - evolution

---

Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Mythimna sequax
Glyptapanteles muesebecki (parasitoid)	Mythimna sequax