Wednesday, 17 November 2004
D0479

Host specificity of soybean aphid parasitoids

Zhishan Wu, wuxxx092@umn.edu1, George E. Heimpel, heimp001@umn.edu1, Keith R. Hopper, khopper@udel.edu2, David W. Ragsdale, ragsd001@umn.edu1, and David J. Voegtlin, dvoegtli@uiuc.edu3. (1) University of Minnesota, Department of Entomology, 219 Hodson Hall, 1980 Folwell Ave, St. Paul, MN, (2) USDA, ARS, Beneficial Insect Introductions Research Unit, 501 South Chapel Street, Newark, DE, (3) Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL

The soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura (Homoptera: Aphididae) has become a serious problem in the US since its first landing in 2000. In Asia, outbreak of soybean aphid in a large scale is rare, and natural enemies play an important role in keeping the soybean aphid under the economic injury level. The commonly-found natural enemies include parasitic wasps, parasitoid flies, coccinellid beetles and entomopathogens. In this study, we investigated the host range of several exotic aphid parasitoids including 4 parasitic wasps, Aphidius sp., Lipolexis gracilis Forster, Trioxys spp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae), and 1 parasitoid fly, Leucopis sp. (Diptera: Chamaemyidae) which were introduced from Asia (China, Japan and South Korea) in 2001-2003. A dozen of aphid species were used for the test. These aphids are taxonomically close to A. glycines and belonged to the tribes Aphidini and Macrosiphini (Homoptera: Aphididae: Aphidinae). All insect cultures were stored in the High-Security Containment/Quarantine Facility in St. Paul, MN. Host range test was conducted in this facility as well.


Species 1: Homoptera Aphididae Aphis glycines (soybean aphid)
Species 2: Hymenoptera Braconidae Trioxys sp
Species 3: Diptera Chamaemyidae Leucopis sp
Keywords: classical biological control, host range test

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