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Oviposition strategy for superparasitism in the gregarious parasitoid Oomyzus sokolowskii (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2018

X. Li ,
B. Li  and
L. Meng
X. Li
Affiliation:
School of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China College of Agriculture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi 030801, China
B. Li
Affiliation:
School of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
L. Meng*
Affiliation:
School of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
*
*Author for correspondence Tel/Fax: (86)(25)-84396394 E-mail: ml@njau.edu.cn
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Abstract

Superparasitism is an adaptive strategy in solitary parasitoids, yet insufficient evidence confirms this in gregarious ones. We here ask whether the gregarious parasitoid Oomyzus sokolowskii is able to discriminate in attack and progeny allocation between parasitized and unparasitized Plutella xylostella larvae, and how the parasitoid allocates brood size and sex to superparasitized hosts due to some circumstances. We found that female parasitoids preferred unparasitized to parasitized host larvae, and allocated a smaller brood with more males in the later than in the former host. Brood size and sex ratio decreased from superparasitized hosts with a 48 h interval since a previous attack compared with one without an interval; they also declined from the host superparasitized by the parasitoid with oviposition experience compared with one without it. Brood size and sex ratio did not differ between the host superparasitized by the same parasitoid as in the first attack and that by a different one. Our findings suggest that O. sokolowskii females may adjust their oviposition decisions on progeny allocation in response to parasitized P. xylostella larvae to maximize their fitness gains from superparasitism.

Keywords

brood sizehost discriminationlearningPlutella xylostellaprogeny allocationsex ratiooviposition strategy
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 109 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 221 - 228
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