Predation of entomopathogenic nematodes by Sancassania sp. (Acari: Acaridae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 85-95

  Karagoz, Mehmet ^a   Gulcu, Baris ^a   Cakmak, Ibrahim ^a   Kaya, Harry K ^b   Hazir, Selcuk ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Nematode antagonist; Nematode predator; Nematophagous mite; Steinernema feltiae

Indexed keywords

ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; MITE; NEMATODE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SANDY SOIL;

ACARIDAE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOIL;

ACARIDAE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RHABDITOIDEA; SOIL;

ACARI; ACARIDAE; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HETERORHABDITIDAE; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODA; PYRALIDAE; RHABDITIDA; SANCASSANIA; STEINERNEMA FELTIAE; STEINERNEMATIDAE;

EID: 35348869148     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-007-9105-y     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Campbell JF, Kaya HK (2002) Variation in entomopathogenic nematode (Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae) infective-stage jumping behaviour. Nematology 4:471-482
2. Campbell JF, Lewis EE (2002) Entomopathogenic nematode host-search strategies. In: Lewis EE, Campbell JF, Sukhdeo MVK (eds) The behavioural ecology of parasites. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, pp 13-38
3. Epsky ND, Walter DE, Capinera JL (1988) Potential role of nematophagous microarthropods as biotic mortality factors of entomogenous nematodes (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae). J Econ Entomol 81:821-825
4. Georgis R, Koppenhöfer AM, Lacey LA, Belair G, Duncan LW, Grewal PS, Samish M, Tan L, Torr P, van Tol RWHM (2006) Successes and failures in the use of parasitic nematodes for pest control. Biol Control 38:103-123
5. Grewal PS, Ehlers RU, Shapiro-Ilan DI (2005a) Nematodes as biocontrol agents. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, 505 pp
6. Grewal PS, Koppenhöfer AM, Choo HY (2005b) Lawn, turfgrass and pasture applications. In: Grewal PS, Ehlers RU, Shapiro-Ilan DI (eds) Nematodes as biocontrol agents. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, pp 115-146
7. Griffin CT, Boemare NE, Lewis EE (2005) Biology and behaviour. In: Grewal PS, Ehlers RU, Shapiro-Ilan DI (eds) Nematodes as biocontrol agents. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, pp 47-64
8. Hazir S, Kaya HK, Stock SP, Keskin N (2003) Entomopathogenic nematodes (Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae) for biological control of soil pests. Turkish J Biol 27:181-202
9. Hominick WM (2002) Biogeography. In: Gaugler R (ed) Entomopathogenic nematology. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, pp 115-143
10. Ishibashi N, Young FZ, Nakashima M, Agabeyru C, Haraguchi N (1987) Effects of application of DD-136 on silkworm, Bombyx mori, predatory insect, Agriosphodorus dohrni, parasitoid, Trichomalus apanteloctenus, soil mites, and other non-target soil arthropods, with brief notes on feeding behavior and predatory pressure of soil mites, tardigrates, and predatory nematodes on DD-136 nematodes. In: Ishibashi N (ed) Recent Advances in biological control of insect pests by entomogenous nematodes in Japan. Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Japan, pp. 158-164. Grant No. 59860005. (in Japanese with English summary)
11. Karg W (1983) Distribution and significance of the predatory mites of the cohort Gamasina as antagonists of nematodes. Pedobiologia 25:219-232
12. Kaya HK (1990) Soil ecology. In: Gaugler R, Kaya HK (eds) Entomopathogenic nematodes in biological control. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 93-115
13. Kaya HK (2002) Natural enemies and other antagonists. In: Gaugler R (ed) Entomopathogenic nematology. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, pp 169-203
14. Kaya HK, Aguillera MM, Alumai A, Choo HY, de la Torre M, Fodor A, Ganguly S, Hazir S, Lakatos T, Pye A, Wilson M, Yamanaka S, Yang H, Ehlers RU (2006) Status of entomopathogenic nematodes and their symbiotic bacteria from selected countries or regions of the world. Biol Control 38:134-155
15. Kaya HK, Koppenhöfer AM, Johnson M (1998) Natural enemies of entomopathogenic nematodes. Jpn J Nematol 28:13-21
16. Kaya HK, Stock SP (1997) Techniques in insect nematology. In: Lacey LA (ed) Manual of techniques in insect pathology. Academic Press, London, pp 281-324
17. Klein MG (1990) Efficacy against soil-inhabiting insect pests. In: Gaugler R, Kaya HK (eds) Entomopathogenic nematodes in biological control. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 195-214
18. Klimov PB, Lekveishvili M, Dowling APG OConnor BM (2004) Multivariate analysis of morphological variation in two cryptic species of Sancassania (Acari: Acaridae) from Costa Rica. Ann Entomol Soc Am 97:322-345
19. Koppenhöfer AM (2000) Nematodes. In: Lacey LA, Kaya HK (eds) Field manual of techniques in invertebrate pathology. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 283-301
20. Krantz GW (1978) A manual of acarology, 2nd edn. Oregon State University Book Stores, Inc., Corvallis, 509 pp
21. Mauléon H, Briand S, Laumond C, Bonifassi E (1993) Utilisation d'enzyme digestives pour I'etude du parasitisme des Steinernematidae et Heterorhabditidae envers les larves d'insects. Fundam Appl Nematol 16:185-186
22. Oliveira AR, de Moraes GJ, Ferraz LCCB (2007) Consumption rate of phytonematodes by Pergalumna sp. (Acari: Oribatida: Galumnidae) under laboratory conditions determined by a new method. Exp Appl Acarol 41:183-189
23. Poinar GO Jr (1979) Nematodes for biological control of insects. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 277 pp
24. Sayre RM, Walter DE (1991) Factors affecting the efficacy of natural enemies of nematodes. Annu Rev Phytopathol 29:149-166
25. Sell P (1988) Caloglyplus sp. (Acarina: Acaridae) an effective nematophagous mite on root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.). Nematologica 34:246-248
26. Shapiro DI, Lewis EE (1999) Comparison of entomopathogenic nematode infectivity from infected hosts versus aqueous suspension. Environ Entomol 28:907-911
27. SPSS (1999) SPSS for Windows, release 10.0.1. SPSS Inc., Chicago
28. Stuart RJ, Barbercheck ME, Grewal PS, Taylor RAJ, Hoy CW (2006) Population biology of entomopathogenic nematodes: concepts, issues and models. Biol Control 38:80-102
29. Sunderland K (1999) Mechanisms underlying the effects of spiders on pest populations. J Arachnol 27:308-316
30. Timper P, Kaya HK (1989) Role of the second-stage cuticle of entomogenous nematodes in preventing infection by nematophagous fungi. J Invertebr Pathol 54:314-321
31. Walter DE (1987) Life history, trophic behavior, and description of Gamasellodes vermivorax n. sp (Mesostigmata: Ascidae), a predator of nematodes and arthropods in semiarid grassland soils. Can J Zool 65:1689-1695
32. Walter DE (1988) Nematophagy by soil arthropods from the shortgrass steppe, Chihuahuan desert and Rocky Mountains of the Central United States. Agri Ecosyst Environ 24:307-316
33. Walter DE (2003) The genus Gamasellodes (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae): new Australian and North American species. Syst Appl Acarol Special Publ 15:1-10
34. Walter DE, Ikonen EK (1989) Species, guilds, and functional groups: taxonomy and behavior in nematophagous arthropods. J Nematol 21:315-327
35. Welbourn WC (1999) Invertebrate cave fauna of Kartchner caverns, Kartchner caverns, Arizona. J Cave Karst Studies 61:93-101