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Copidosoma floridanum was the most common parasitoid of T. ni and was absent from the invasive species.
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e0“C opidosoma floridanum ( A shmead) ( H ymenoptera: E ncyrtidae) was the most common parasitoid of T . ni that was not found in the invasive species”
Title
Henry Murillo Pacheco; Sherah L. Vanlaerhoven; M. Ángeles Marcos García; et al. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 2018. doi:10.1111/eea.12674
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation The crop food web contained twenty-one plant–host insect–parasitoid associations.
- Observation Chrysodeixis chalcites was the most common sampled host insect.
- Observation Five larval parasitoid taxa expanded their host range into C. chalcites, changing the food web.
- Association Plant species, host abundance and agro-ecosystem were the most common predictors of host expanding parasitoid presence.
- Recommendation The authors recommend evaluating C. sonorensis, C. vanessae and C. floridanum for biological control of C. chalcites and T. ni.