Three species of Megacerus Fahraeus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) associated to Merremia umbellata (L.) Hall. Fill (Convolvulaceae) in México

Autor:	María Trinidad López-López, Aracely De La Cruz-Pérez, Jesús Romero-Nápoles, Manuel Pérez-De La Cruz, Alejandra Javier-Castillo, Magdiel Torres-De La Cruz
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	biology Host (biology) Bruchid General Medicine seeds Convolvulaceae biology.organism_classification Merremia umbellata host lcsh:Zoology Botany lcsh:Q lcsh:QL1-991 lcsh:Science
Zdroj:	Revista Chilena de Entomología, Vol 45, Iss 2, Pp 205-214 (2019)
ISSN:	0718-8994 0034-740X
Popis:	In order to determine the species of bruchids that feed on Merremia umbellata (L.) Hall. Fil. (1892) seeds, 110 samples of ovoid capsule were collected, from which 753 bruchids of the genus Megacerus Fahraeus, 1839 were obtained. The most abundant species was M. alabani (Teran and Kingsolver, 1977) (84.86%), followed by M. cubiculus (Casey, 1884) (14.87%) and M. tricolor (Suffrian, 1870) (0.27%). A total of 5,709 seeds was evaluated to determine the damage these insects cause plants. Of these, 880 presented some type of condition, representing a 15.41% damage caused by the three Megacerus species include the parasited. This is the first record of the species M. alabani, M. cubiculus on the host M. umbellata .
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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