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| Publication Type:
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| Author(s): | Vazquez, Ricardo J.;
Porter, Sanford D.;
Briano, Juan A. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Vazquez: Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, USDA-ARS, Gainesville, Florida and Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Porter: Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, USDA-ARS, Gainesville, Florida; Briano: South American Biological Control Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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| Title: | Host specificity of a biotype of the fire ant decapitating fly Pseudacteon curvatus (Diptera: Phoridae) from Northern Argentina |
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| Section: | Behavior
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| Source: | Environmental Entomology. Vol. 33, No. 5, October 2004, p. 1436-1441. |
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| Publishing Information: | College Park, MD: Entomological Society of America |
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| # of Pages: | 6 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Solenopsis invicta; Solenopsis geminata; Predators of insect pests; Biological control organisms; Biological control; Insect control
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| Geographic Terms: | Northern Argentina |
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| Abstract/Contents: | "We tested the host specificity of Pseudacteon curvatus Borgmeier from Formosa, Argentina, on North American colonies of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, and the native fire ants Solenopsis germinata (F.) and Solenopsis xyloni McCook. No-choice tests showed that P. curvatus hovered over and attacked all three species of fire ants. The number of pupae successfully completing development to adult flies in the trial was 5.03 ± 1.55 (mean ± SE) per female fly in S. invicta, 0.66 ± 0.24 per female fly in S. xyloni, and 0 per female fly in S. germinata. Paired preference tests showed that P. curvatus perferred to hover over S. invicta instead of S. xyloni 77 ± 3% (mean ± SE) of the time and preferred S. invicta over S. germinata 87 ± 4% of the time. The oviposition attempts of active female P. curvatus were 2.8 times higher on S. invicta than on S. xyloni and 16 times higher on S. invicta than on S. germinata. These results demonstrate that this new biotype of P. curvatus is more host specific to North American red imported fire ants than a previous biotype collected from black imported fire ants." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 29 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Vazquez, R. J., S. D. Porter, and J. A. Briano. 2004. Host specificity of a biotype of the fire ant decapitating fly Pseudacteon curvatus (Diptera: Phoridae) from Northern Argentina. Environ. Entomol. 33(5):p. 1436-1441. |
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