Efficiency of food utilization by Dichroplus maculipennis (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) on four crop plants under controlled conditions
| Autor: | R. Cepeda, Yanina Mariottini, M. L. De Wysiecki, Carlos E. Lange |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0106 biological sciences
Orthoptera 010607 zoology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Acrididae Crop Ciencias Biológicas Animal science Grasshopper Nymph Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics CROPS ARGENTINA biology fungi NUTRICIONAL EFFICIENCIES Dichroplus maculipennis food and beverages Zoología Ornitología Entomología Etología biology.organism_classification GRASSHOPPER Melanoplinae Animal Science and Zoology Food quality CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01650521.2019.1621001 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to analyze the food utilization efficiencies and the relative growth and consumption rates of different developmental stages and sexes of D. maculipennis under controlled conditions on wheat, oat, corn, and soybean plants, important crops in the Pampas region of Argentina. As expected from a polyphagous species, D. maculipennis was observed to consume all four of the plant species offered. Nevertheless, the consumption of both nymphs and adults was differentiated. Oat and wheat were more consumed than corn and soybean. Females presented higher consumption rates (384.6 ± 30.64 mg/individual/day) than males (278.71 ± 24.26 mg/individual/day). Adult females had the highest growth rate, followed by nymphs of the same sex, and then adult males. The highest values of ECI and ECD were obtained in soybean; females had higher values of food efficiencies than males, and nymphs had greater values than adults. In relation to this, soybean was the highest quality food; the amount of nitrogen present in soybean was approximately twice that found in the other species. The nutritional needs of D. maculipennis might have been satisfied by feeding on low quantities of soybean, which is, among the food offered, the most “nutritionally balanced food”. Fil: Mariottini, Yanina. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Ecosistemas y Desarrollo Sustentable; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil; Argentina Fil: Lange, Carlos Ernesto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores; Argentina Fil: Cepeda, R.. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Ecosistemas y Desarrollo Sustentable; Argentina Fil: de Wysiecki, Maria Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores; Argentina |
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