Evaluation of the parasitoid Copidosoma koehleri for biological control of the potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella, in Israeli potato fields

Biocontrol Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 325-336

  Keasar, Tamar ^a,b   Steinberg, Shimon ^c  

^a ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c Bio Bee Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Augmentative biocontrol; Copidosoma koehleri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae); Local natural enemies; Phthorimaea opeculella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae); Potato field

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PEST; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LABORATORY METHOD; MOTH; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; POTATO; REARING; SURVIVAL; TUBER;

AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

COPIDOSOMA KOEHLERI; ENCYRTIDAE; GELECHIIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHTHORIMAEA; PHTHORIMAEA OPERCULELLA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 45849090364     PISSN: 09583157     EISSN: 13600478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09583150801905596     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Ali, M.A. (1993), "Effects of Cultural Practices on Reducing Field Infestation of Potato Tuber Moth (Phthorimaea operculella) and Greening of Tubers in Sudan," Journal of Agricultural Science, 121, 283-287.
2. Baggen, L.R., and Gurr, G.M. (1998), "The Influence of Food on Copidosoma koehleri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), and the Use of Flowering Plants as a Habitat Management Tool to Enhance Biological Control of Potato Moth, Phthorimaea operculella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)," Biological Control, 11, 9-17.
3. Berlinger, M.J., and Lebiush-Mordechi, S. (1997), "The Potato Tubermoth in Israel: A Review of its Phenology, Behavior, Methodology, Parasites and Control," Trends in Entomology, 1, 137-155.
4. Coll, M., and Yuval, B. (2004), "Larval Food-Plants Affect Flight and Reproduction in an Oligophagous Insect Herbivore," Environmental Entomology, 33, 1471-1476.
5. Coll, M., Gavish, S., and Dori, I. (2000), "Population Biology of the Potato Tuber Moth, Phthorimaea operculella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in Two Potato Cropping Systems in Israel," Bulletin of Entomological Research, 90, 309-315.
6. Das, G.P., and Raman, K.V. (1994), "Alternate Hosts of the Potato Tuber Moth, Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller)," Crop Protection, 14, 631-636.
7. Fenemore, P.G. (1980), "Susceptibility of Potato Cultivars to Potato Tuber Moth, Phthorimaea operculella Zell. (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)," New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 23, 539-546.
8. Flanders, R.V., and Oatman, E.R. (1987), "Competitive Interactions among Andophagous Parasitoids of Potato Tuber worm Larvae in Southern California," Hilgardia, 55, 1-34.
9. Gurr, G., and Wratten, S. (2002), Biological Control: Measures of Success, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer.
10. Hanafi, A. (1999), "Integrated Pest Management of Potato Tuber Moth in Field and Storage," Potato Research, 42, 373-380.
11. Horne, P.A. (1990), "The Influence of Introduced Parasitoids of the Potato Moth Phthorimaea operculella Lepidoptera Gleechiidae in Victoria, Australia," Bulletin of Entomological Research, 80, 159-164.
12. Horne, P.A. (1993), "Sampling for the Potato Moth (Phthorimaea operculella) and its Parasitoids," Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 33, 31-96.
13. Horne, P.A., and Horne, J.A. (1991), "The Effects of Temperature and Host Density on the Development and Survival of Copidosoma koehleri," Entomologica Experimentalis et Applicata, 59, 289-292.
14. Kfir, R. (1981), "Fertility of the Polyembryonic Parasite Copidosoma koehleri, Effect of Humidities on Life Length and Relative Abundance as Compared with that of Apanteles subandinus in Potato Tuber Moth," Annals of Applied Biology, 99, 225-230.
15. Kfir, R. (2003), ""Biological Control of the Potato Tuber Moth Phthorimaea operculella in Africa," in Biological Control in IPM Systems in Africa, eds. P. Neuenschwander, C. Borgemeister and J. Langewald, Oxfordshire, UK: CABI International Publishing, pp. 77-85.
16. Kroschel, J., and Koch, W. (1986), "Studies on the Population Dynamics of the Potato Tuber Moth Pthtorimaea operculella Zell (Lep., Gelechiidae) in the Republic of Yemen," Journal of Applied Entomology, 118, 327-341.
17. Lane, S.D., Mills, N.J., and Getz, W.M. (1999), "The Effects of Parasitoid Fecundity and Host Taxon on the Biological Control of Insect Pests: The Relationship between Theory and Data," Ecological Entomology, 24, 181-190.
18. van Lenteren, J.C., Babendreier, D., and Bigler, F., Burgio, G. Hokkanen, H.M.T., Kuske, S., Loomans, A.J.M., Menzler-Hokkanen, I., van Rijn, P.C.J., Thomas, M.B., Tommasini, M.G., and Zeng, Q.-Q. (2003), "Environmental Risk Assessment of Exotic Natural Enemies used in Inundative Biological Control," Biocontrol, 48, 3-38.
19. Mohammed, A., Douches, D.S., and Pett, W., Grafius, E., Coombs, J., Liswidowati, Li, W., and Madkour, M.A. (2000), "Evaluation of Potato Tuber Moth (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) Resistance in Tubers of Bt-cry5 Transgenic Potato Lines," Journal of Economic Entomology, 93, 472-476.
20. Mulatu, B., Applebaum, S.W., and Coll, M. (2004), "A Recently Acquired Host Plant Provides an Oligophagous Insect Herbivore with Enemy-Free Space," Oikos, 107, 231-238.
21. Murdoch, W.W., and Briggs, C.J. (1996), "Theory for Biological Control: Recent Developments," Ecology, 77, 2001-2013.
22. Pucci, C., Spanedda, A.F., and Minutoli, E. (2003), "Field Study of Parasitism Caused by Endemic Parasitoids and by the Exotic Parasitoid Copidosoma koehleri on Phthorimaea operculella in Central Italy," Bulletin of Insectology, 56, 221-224.
23. Trivedi, T.P., and Rajagopal, D. (1992), "Distribution, Biology, Ecology and Management of the Potato Tuber Moth, Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae): A Review," Tropical Pest Management, 38, 279-285.