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Only Females Oviposit: Chemical Discrimination of Adult Stink Bug Sex by the Egg Parasitoid Trissolcus japonicus

2021

Egg parasitoids foraging for suitable hosts scattered in the environment rely mainly on chemical cues. Elucidating the chemical ecology of natural enemies is important in the development of effective and successful strategies for conservation biological control. In this context, the host cuticular hydrocarbons, which are exploited by several species of egg parasitoids as contact kairomones, could be used to retain them by providing information about the presence and the sex of adults of the target species: sex is important because only females of the host species lay the eggs that can be subsequently utilized for parasitoid reproduction. However, the chemical basis of host sex discriminatio…

0106 biological scienceslcsh:EvolutionBiological pest controlZoologyContext (language use)010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesParasitoidlcsh:QH540-549.5lcsh:QH359-425Halyomorpha halysBrown marmorated stink bugEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsScelionidaeEcologybiologyHost (biology)cuticular hydrocarbonskairomonefungibiology.organism_classification1-hexadecene cuticular hydrocarbons Halyomorpha halys host searching behavior kairomone samurai wasp Scelionidae1-hexadeceneChemical ecology010602 entomologyKairomonehost searching behaviorlcsh:EcologyScelionidae
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