Insects (2022) 13 (10 - 937)

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Zi-Qi Wang, Xiao-Gui Zhou, Qiang Xiao, Pu Tang and Xue-Xin Chen (2022)
The potential of Parapanteles hyposidrae and Protapanteles immunis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as biocontrol agents for the tea grey geometrid Ectropis grisescens (Lepidoptera)
Insects 13 (10 - 937)
Abstract: The tea grey geometrid Ectropis grisescens has long been a significant insect pest of tea plants in China. Two parasitoids, Parapanteles hyposidrae and Protapanteles immunis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), are the most important parasitoids in the larval stage of E. grisescens. Yet, the potential of these two parasitoids for controlling the tea grey geometrid is not known. Here, we studied the parasitism performance of these two parasitoid species on different host densities under different temperatures as well as the interference effect of parasitoid density. The results showed that both parasitoid species, Pa. hyposidrae and Pr. immunis, exhibited a Type II functional response towards the tea grey geometrid E. grisescens at four tested temperatures. With increasing the density of E. grisescens larvae, the number of parasitized larvae increased until a maximum was reached. The highest number of hosts parasitized by Pa. hyposidrae or Pr. immunis reached 14.5 or 14.75 hosts d-1 at 22 °C, respectively. The estimated values of instantaneous searching efficiency (a) and handling time (h) for Pa. hyposidrae or Pr. immunis were 1.420 or 3.621 and 0.04 or 0.053 at 22 °C, respectively. Pr. immunis performed better than Pa. hyposidrae under higher temperatures. The parasitism rate by a single female parasitoid decreased with increasing parasitoid density at different temperatures, resulting in a reduction of searching efficiency. The findings of this study showed that Pr.immunis could be a better effective biocontrol agent than Pa. hyposidrae against the tea grey geometrid.
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Database assignments for author(s): Xue-Xin Chen

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


Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial Pest/Disease/Weed Crop/Product Country Quarant.


Ectropis grisescens Tea (Camellia sinensis) China (south)
Protapanteles immunis (parasitoid) Ectropis grisescens
Parapanteles hyposidrae (parasitoid) Ectropis grisescens Tea (Camellia sinensis) China (south)