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AN ARTIFICIAL HOST: ENCAPSULATED SYNTHETIC MEDIUM FOR IN VITRO OVIPOSITION AND REARING THE ENDOPARASITOID ITOPLECTIS CONQUISITOR (HYMENOPTERA: ICHNEUMONIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. L. House
H. L. House
Affiliation:
Smithfield Experimental Farm, Agriculture Canada, Trenton, Ontario K8V 5R5
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This note reports the first in vitro oviposition and rearing of a parasitic insect, the endoparasitoid wasp Itoplectis conquisitor (Say), a male, on an artificial host consisting of an encapsulated synthetic, or meridic (Dougherty 1959, p. 53), medium.

Parasitic insects, of course, have been reared in vitro on meridic diets (House 1954; Yazgan 1972; Thompson 1975). Some were reported to oviposit into artificial objects (Arthur et al. 1972; Rajendram and Hagen 1974; Hoffman et al. 1975). Trichogramma pretiosum Riley laid viable eggs and development to adults occurred in small wax-resin spheres filled with host haemolymph (Hoffman et al. 1975).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 110 , Issue 3 , 01 March 1978 , pp. 331 - 333
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1978

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