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Ferdinando Bin
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Insect oviposition induces volatile emission in herbaceous plants that attracts egg parasitoid
2003
SUMMARYThe egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis (Wollaston) (Hymenoptera:Scelionidae) responded to synomones emitted by leguminous plants induced by feeding and oviposition activity of the bug Nezara viridula (L.)(Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). This was shown by laboratory bioassays using a Y-tube olfactometer. Broad bean leaves (Vicia faba L.) damaged by feeding activity of N. viridula and on which host egg mass had been laid produced synomones that attracted T. basalis. By contrast,undamaged leaves or feeding-damaged leaves without eggs did not attract wasp females. French bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) also emitted attractive synomones when they were damaged by host feeding and carrying e…
How to escape from insect egg parasitoids : a review of potential factors explaining parasitoid absence across the Insecta
2020
The egg is the first life stage directly exposed to the environment in oviparous animals, including many vertebrates and most arthropods. Eggs are vulnerable and prone to mortality risks. In arthropods, one of the most common egg mortality factors is attack from parasitoids. Yet, parasitoids that attack the egg stage are absent in more than half of all insect (sub)orders. In this review, we explore possible causes explaining why eggs of some insect taxa are not parasitized. Many insect (sub)orders that are not attacked by egg parasitoids lack herbivorous species, with some notable exceptions. Factors we consider to have led to escape from egg parasitism are parental egg care, rapid egg deve…
Source of the host marking pheromone in the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae).
2001
After oviposition, Trissolcus basalis females always mark the host's surface, depositing host marking substances for herself and to warn other ovipositing females. The perception of these host marking substances, probably through the antennae, can induce the female to leave and seek healthy hosts. Parasitoid females exposed to conspecific parasitized egg masses left the host egg masses significantly more often than when exposed to non-parasitized egg masses. More egg mass leaving behavior also was observed when the egg masses were treated with Dufour's gland secretion but not when treated with secretion from the common oviducts. The common oviduct has a secretory epithelium that produces el…
Il feromone sessuale a breve raggio del parassitoide oofago Trissolcus brochymenae
2009
Il comportamento sessuale dei parassitoidi presenta una fase di pre-copula, in cui si ha ricerca, corteggiamento e riconoscimento dell’altro sesso, alla quale seguono le fasi di copula ed eventualmente post-copula. Durante la pre-copula, la localizzazione e il riconoscimento sono per lo più stimolati da composti feromonali con diversa volatilità. I composti feromonali ad alta volatilità, rilasciati dalle femmine, sono utilizzati dai maschi per l’orientamento a lunga distanza, mentre quelli scarsamente volatili mediano il comportamento di corteggiamento. In questo lavoro si riportano dati sperimentali sul feromone sessuale a breve raggio emesso dalle femmine di Trissolcus brochymenae (Hymeno…