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Offspring production and self-superparasitism in the solitary ectoparasitoid Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in relation to host abundance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2011

E.A. Böckmann ,
J. Tormos ,
F. Beitia  and
K. Fischer
E.A. Böckmann*
Affiliation:
Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture, D-69221 Dossenheim, Germany
J. Tormos
Affiliation:
Área de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Salamanca, 37071-Salamanca, Spain
F. Beitia
Affiliation:
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Unidad Asociada de Entomología IVIA/CIB-CSIC, Apartado Oficial, 46113-Montcada, Valencia, Spain
K. Fischer
Affiliation:
Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany
*
*Author for correspondence Fax: +49 (0)6221-86805-15 E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Parasitoid fitness strongly depends on the availability and quality of hosts, which provide all resources required for larval development. Several factors, such as host size and previous parasitation, may affect host quality. Because self-superparasitism induces competition among a female's offspring, it should only occur if there is an imperfect recognition of self-parasitized hosts or if there is a fitness advantage to self-superparasitism. Against this background, we investigated self-superparasitism and offspring production in Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in relation to the abundance of a novel host, Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae). Individual pairs of parasitoids were provided with either two (low host abundance) or ten (high host abundance) pupae per day. Under high host abundance, lifetime fecundity (number of eggs laid), offspring number, number of pupae parasitized and hosts killed were greater than under low host abundance, whereas the number of eggs per host was lower; and the proportion of hosts that did not produce offspring tended to be lower. The latter suggests the occurrence of ovicide, when hosts are scarce due to an at least imperfect recognition of previously self-parasitized hosts. Offspring production per parasitized pupa was higher when hosts were scarce and levels of self-superparasitism high, suggesting the existence of beneficial effects of self-superparasitism.

Keywords

egg productionhost abundancemedflyparasitic waspsex ratio
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Research Paper
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 102 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 131 - 137
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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