Olfactory host location and learning in the granary weevil parasitoid Lariophagus distinguendus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 331-342

  Steidle, Johannes L M ^a   Schöller, Matthias ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lariophagus distinguendus; Learning; Olfactory host location; Parasitoid; Sitophilus granarius; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

HYMENOPTERA; LARIOPHAGUS; LARIOPHAGUS DISTINGUENDUS; PTEROMALIDAE; SITOPHILUS GRANARIUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0030875551     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02765601     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Agelopoulos, N. G., Dicke, M., and Posthumus, M. A. (1995). Role of volatile infochemicals emitted by feces of larvae in host searching behavior of parasitoid Cotesia rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A behavioral and chemical study. J. Chem. Ecol. 21: 1789-1811.
2. Albom, H. T., Lewis, W. J., and Tumlinson, J. H. (1995). Host-specific recognition kairomone for the parasitoid Microplitis croceipes (Cresson). J. Chem. Ecol. 21: 1697-1708.
3. Ambriz, S. J., Strand, M. R., and Burkholder, W. E. (1996). Behavioural response of the parasitoid Lariophagus distinguendus (Först.) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) to extracts from cocoons of Lasioderma serricorne Fab. (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) and their effects on subsequent oviposition responses. Biol. Control 6: 51-56.
4. Bellows, T. S. (1985). Effects of host age and host availability on developmental period, adult size, sex ratio, longevity and fecundity in Lariophagus distinguendus Förster (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Res. Popul. Ecol. 27: 55-64.
5. Cortesero, A. M., Monge, J. P., and Huignard, J. (1993). Response of the parasitoid Eupelmus vuilleti to the odours of the phytophagous host and its host plant in an olfactometer. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 69: 109-116.
6. Cortesero, A. M., Monge, J. P., and Huignard, J. (1995). Influence of two successive learning processes on the response of Eupelmus vuilleti Crw (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) to volatile stimuli from host and host plants. J. Insect Behav. 8: 751-762.
7. De Jong, R., and Kaiser, L. (1991). Odor learning by Leptopilina boulardi, a specialist parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Eucoilidae). J. Insect Behav. 4: 743-750.
8. Dicke, M. (1994). Local and systemic production of volatile herbivore induced terpenoids: Their role in plant-carnivore mutualism. J. Plant. Physiol. 143: 465-472.
9. Eller, F. J., Tumlinson, J. H., and Lewis, W. J. (1988). Beneficial arthropod behavior mediated by airborne semiochemicals. II. Olfactometric studies of host location by the parasitoid Microplitis croceipes (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). J. Chem. Ecol. 14: 425-434.
10. Eller, F. J., Tumlinson, J. H., and Lewis, W. J. (1992). Effect of host diet and preflight experience on the flight responses of Microplitis croceipes (Cresson). Phys. Entomol. 17: 235-240.
11. Geervliet, J. B. F., Vet, L. E. M., and Dicke, M. (1994). Volatiles from damaged plants as major cues in long-range host-searching by the specialist parasitoid Cotesia rubecula. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 73: 289-297.
12. Godfray, H. C. J. (1994). Parasitoids, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
13. Hase, A. (1919). Beiträge zur morphologischen und biologischen Kenntnis der Schlupfwespe Lariophagus distinguendus (Först) Kurdj. Sitzungsberichte Gesellschaft Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 10: 402-432.
14. Hase, A. (1924). Über den Stech- und Legeakt, sowie über den Wirtswechsel von Lariophagus distinguendus. Chalcididae. Pteromalini. Naturwissenschaften 20: 377-384.
15. Hüsing, J. O. (1935). Über einen neuen Parasiten Lariophagus distinguendus Först. (Hym. Chalc.) an Ptinus fur L. (Col. Ptin.). Zool. Anz. 15: 324-326.
16. Kaschef, A. H. (1955). Étude biologique du Stegobium paniceum L. (Col., Anobiidae) et de son parasite Lariophagus distinguendus Först. (Hym., Pteromalidae). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 124: 1-88.
17. Kaschef, A. H. (1959). Sur le comportement de Lariophagus distinguendus Forst. (Hym., Pteromalidae). Behaviour 14: 108-122.
18. Kaschef, A. H. (1964). Further studies of olfaction in Lariophagus distinguendus Först. (Hym., Pteromalidae). Behaviour 23: 31-42.
19. Kirkpatrick, R. L., and Wilbur, D. A. (1965). The development and habits of the granary weevil, Sitophilus granarius within the kernel of wheat. J. Econ. Entomol. 58: 979-985.
20. Lewis, W. J., and Takasu, K. (1990). Use of learned odours by a parasitic wasp in accordance with host and food needs. Nature 348: 635-636.
21. Lewis, W. J., and Tumlinson, J. H. (1988). Host detection by chemically mediated associative learning in a parasitic wasp. Nature 331: 257-259.
22. Mattiacci, L., and Dicke, M. (1995). The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) discriminates between first and fifth larval instars of its host Pieris brassicae, on the basis of contact cues from frass, silk, and herbivore-damaged leaf tissue. J. Insect. Behav. 8: 485-498.
23. Mattiacci, L., Dicke, M., and Posthumus, M. A. (1994). Induction of parasitoid attracting pheromone in Brussels sprouts plants by feeding of Pieris brassicae larvae: Role of mechanical damage and herbivore elicitor. J. Chem. Ecol. 20: 2229-2247.
24. McAuslane, H. J., Vinson, S. B., and Williams, H. J. (1991). Stimuli influencing host microhabitat location in the parasitoid Campoletis sonorensis. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 58: 267-277.
25. Noldus, L. P. J. J. (1988). "The Observer": An integrated system for event recording and data analysis in behavioural research. In Proceedings, 18th international Congress of Entomology (Vancouver 1988), p. 228.
26. Peck, O. (1963). A catalogue of the nearctic Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Can. Entomol. (Suppl.) 30: 1-1092.
27. Petitt, F. L., Turlings, T. C. J., and Wolf, S. P. (1992). Adult experience modifies attraction of the leafminer parasitoid Opius dissitus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to volatile semiochemicals. J. Insect Behav. 5: 623-634.
28. Sachs, L. (1992). Angewandte Statistik, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
29. Smirnov, E., and Polejaeff, W. G. (1937). On the behavior of Lariophagus distinguendus Först., a parasite of the granary weevil Calandra granaria L. Zool. Zjurn. 16: 999-1012.
30. Steinberg, S., Dicke, M., and Vet, L. E. M. (1993). Relative importance of infochemicals from first and second trophic level in long-range host location by the larval parasitoid Cotesia glomerata. J. Chem. Ecol. 19: 47-59.
31. Tumlinson, J. H., Turlings, T. C. J., and Lewis, W. J. (1992). The Semiochemicals complexes that mediate insect parasitoid foraging. Agr. Zool. Rev. 5: 221-252.
32. Turlings, T. C. J., Tumlinson, J. H., Lewis, W. J., and Vet, L. E. (1989). Beneficial arthropod behavior mediated by airborne semiochemicals. VIII. Learning of host-related odors induced by a brief contact experience with host by-products in Cotesia marginiventris (Cresson), a generalist larval parasitoid. J. Insect Behav. 2: 217-225.
33. Turlings, T. C. J., Tumlinson, J. H., and Lewis, W. J. (1990). Exploitation of herbivore-induced plant odors by host seeking parasitic wasps. Science 250: 1251-1253.
34. Turlings, T. C. J., Tumlinson, J. H., Heath, R. R., Proveaux, A. T., and Doolittle, R. E. (1991). Isolation and identification of the allelochemicals that attract the larval parasitoid, Cotesia marginiventris (Cresson), to the microhabitat of one of its hosts. J. Chem. Ecol. 17: 2235-2251.
35. Turlings, T. C. J., McCall, P. J., Alborn, H. T., and Tumlinson, J. H. (1993a). An elicitor in caterpillar oral secretions that induces corn seedlings to emit chemical signals attractive to parasitic wasps. J. Chem. Ecol. 19: 411-425.
36. Turlings, T. J., Wäckers, F. L., Vet, L. E. M., Lewis, W. J., and Tumlinson, J. H. (1993b). Learning of host-finding cues by hymenopterous parasitoids. In Papaj, D. R., and Lewis, A. C. (eds.), Insect Learning, Chapman & Hall, New York, pp. 51-78.
37. Turlings, T. C. J., Loughrin, J. H., McCall, P. J., Röse, U. S. R., Lewis, W. J., and Tumlinson, J. H. (1995). How caterpillar-damaged plants protect themselves by attracting parasitic wasps. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92: 4169-4174.
38. Udayagiri, S., and Jones, R. L. (1993). Variation in flight response of the specialist parasitoid Macrocentrus grandii Goidanich to odours from food plants of its European corn borer host. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 69: 183-193.
39. van Huis, A., Schütte, C., Cools, M. H., Fanget, Ph., van der Hoek, H., and Piquet, S. P. (1994). The role of semiochemicals in host location by Uscana lariophaga, egg parasitoid of Callosobruchus maculatus. In Proc. 6th Int. Work. Conf. Stored-Product Prot., Canberra, Australia, pp. 1158-1164.
40. Vet, L. E. M., and Groenewold, A. W. (1990). Semiochemicals and learning in parasitoids. J. Chem. Ecol. 16: 3119-3135.
41. Vet, L. E., Lewis, W. J., Papaj, D. R., and van Lenteren, J. C. (1990). A variable-response model for parasitoid foraging behavior. J. Insect Behav. 3: 471-490.
42. Vet, L. E. M., Lewis, W. J., and Cardé, R. T. (1995). Parasitoid foraging and learning. In Cardé, R. T., and Bell, W. J. (eds.), Chemical Ecology of Insects 2, Chapman & Hall, New York, pp. 65-101.