Ecological, morphological and molecular studies on Ganaspis individuals (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) attacking Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Autor: Nazuki Kasuya, Hideyuki Mitsui, Shinsuke Ideo, Masahito T. Kimura, Masayoshi Watada
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Applied Entomology and Zoology. 48:87-92
ISSN: 1347-605X
0003-6862
DOI: 10.1007/s13355-012-0156-0
Popis: Ganaspis individuals parasitizing Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), a pest of fruit crop, were examined for host use and molecular and morphological differences from those attacking D. lutescens Okada and some other Drosophila species that breed on fermenting fruits. Wild cherry fruits were collected in the suburbs of Tokyo, and drosophilid pupae obtained from these fruits were examined for parasitism. Drosophila suzukii was the only drosophilid species infesting fresh wild cherry fruits, and Ganaspis individuals were the major parasitoids attacking D. suzukii in wild cherry fruits. In parasitism experiments, these Ganaspis individuals parasitized D. suzukii larvae in fresh cherry fruits, but did not parasitize those in Drosophila medium. In addition, they did not parasitize larvae of some other fruit-feeding Drosophila species even when these occurred in fresh cherry fruit. These Ganaspis individuals parasitizing D. suzukii were different from those parasitizing D. lutescens and some other drosophilids in nucleotide sequences of the COI gene, as well as in ITS1 and ITS2. They were also different in the forewing and antenna morphology, although they showed some overlap in morphological traits. They are tentatively assigned as the suzukii- and lutescens-associated types of G. xanthopoda (Ashmead). In the present field survey, Leptopilina japonica Novković & Kimura and some Asobara species were also observed to attack D. suzukii larvae in wild cherry fruit.
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