瓜蒌透翅蛾的初步研究

<正> 瓜蒌透翅蛾俗称粗腿透翅蛾Melittia bom-byliformis Cramer属鳞翅目、透翅蛾科。是药用植物瓜篓Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim.和双边瓜萎T.uniflora Hao的重要害虫。为此,从1978年9月开始,我们对其生活史及其发生规律进行了系统观察,现简要介绍如下: 一、形态特征 成虫 体长雌20—22毫米,雄18—20毫米,翅展雌38毫米,雄36毫米。头部暗褐色,混杂有黄毛,复眼的前缘有黄白色毛,触角球杆形,末端有钩,并具有一毛束,口喙发达。后足生有丛毛这是此种显著的特点。翅透明、翅脉、翅缘、前翅的横脉附近及翅顶部黑色,并翅面散     

蜉蝣属一新种(蜉蝣目:蜉蝣科)(英文)

详细描述了采自安徽黄土坑的一新种：黑翅蜉（Ephemeranigropterasp.nov）的形态特征,并对前人划分蜉蝣属各亚属的标准作了修订。认为将前翅MP2脉与CuA脉在基部连接与否作为划分蜉蝣亚属的标准比较可行。这样,黑翅蜉应归入到蜉蝣属叉蜉亚属（Dicrephemera）。黑翅蜉区别于蜉蝣属其它种的特征为：1）雄成虫前翅外侧大部分呈棕红色,半透明,雌成虫的前翅只具少许斑点,翅透明;2）后翅外侧缘具棕红色斑纹,半透明,而雌成虫后翅不具斑纹,透明,3）雄、雌成虫腹部背板上的斑纹形式及排列;4）雄成虫的尾铗大部分为黑色;5）雄成虫的阳茎的形状独特,且两阳茎紧靠。     

中国圆额盲蝽属一新种(半翅目:盲蝽科)

圆额盲蝽属Leptopterna为全北区广泛分布的类群。该属昆虫体为长形,被覆直立的长毛;体色由淡黄白或黄褐到橙褐色;头部在两复眼间有暗色长形纵斑,此斑在额部常分叉为二;额圆,略向前突出,但不盖住唇基;复眼与前胸背板的距离小于复眼宽度;雄虫前翅完整,雌虫则前翅退化短缩;足被覆浓密的长毛。雄性阳茎有两个大形刺     

稻田飞虱、叶蝉的重要天敌——小宽蝽

小宽蝽 Microvelia horvathi Lundblad属宽蝽科,是捕食稻田飞虱、叶蝉的优势天敌之一。我们自1976年秋开始对其发生规律进行了调查观测,初步结果如下: 一、形态 成虫 全体深褐色,复眼紫褐色,触角4节,褐色,足淡黄褐色。雌成虫体长1.6毫米左右,翅上有几块白色斑;雄虫体长1.5毫米左右,越冬雄虫无翅     

草地贪夜蛾成虫复眼明暗适应及黄光照射下明适应状态转化率

【目的】蛾类昆虫的趋光性与复眼明暗适应状态的转化有着直接的关系，本研究旨在阐明光照与草地贪夜蛾Spodotera frugiperda复眼明暗适应状态转化的关系。【方法】在光、暗适应条件和不同光照强度黄光照射下，在不同时间段，用相机迅速拍照，观察统计草地贪夜蛾成虫复眼的明暗适应状态及明、暗适应状态转化率。【结果】在明适应状态下，草地贪夜蛾成虫经黄光照射1 h后，随光照强度的增加，复眼明适应状态保持率逐步升高：雄成虫复眼在0.1~0.5 lx时明适应状态保持率为67.77%(有32.23%的转化为暗适应状态与中间状态)，4~6 lx时明适应状态保持率达到100%；雌成虫复眼在7~10 lx时，明适应状态保持率达98.90%。在明适应状态下，经黄光照射3 h后，草地贪夜蛾成虫复眼明适应状态保持率亦随着光照强度的增加逐步升高，在0.1~0.5 lx时雄成虫复眼明适应状态保持率为50.00%,雌成虫为32.23%；在光照强度7~10 lx时，雌雄成虫复眼明适应状态保持率分别为90.00%和100%。在暗适应状态下，草地贪夜蛾成虫经不同光照强度的黄光照射30 min后，成虫复眼向明适应状态逐渐转化：在0.1~0.5 lx光照强度时雌、雄成虫复眼明适应状态转化率均为93.33%；当光照强度达到0.6~0.9 lx时雌成虫复眼的明适应状态转化率达到100%，雄成虫复眼则在1~2 lx时达到100%。【结论】结果说明，草地贪夜蛾成虫有较强的光敏感性，且雌虫对黄光的光敏感性略强于雄虫。     

禾谷缢管蚜复眼外部形态的扫描电镜观察

【目的】通过比较禾谷缢管蚜Rhopalosiphum padi两种生活史(全周期型和不全周期型)及5种蚜型(有翅孤雌蚜、无翅孤雌蚜、雄蚜、雌性蚜和产雌性母)成蚜复眼外部形态,分析了其视觉能力差异,为进一步探索禾谷缢管蚜生殖转换及寄主搜寻机制提供参考。【方法】利用扫描电镜技术,观察全周期型和不全周期型禾谷缢管蚜无翅孤雌蚜及其低温短日照(12℃, 光周期8L∶16D)诱导条件下全周期型所产5种蚜型成蚜的复眼外部形态。【结果】禾谷缢管蚜成蚜复眼着生于头部触角基部,呈卵圆形,小眼间无感觉毛。全周期型和不全周期型禾谷缢管蚜无翅孤雌蚜的复眼大小(长轴直径及短轴直径)、复眼弧高、小眼数量和小眼直径均没有显著差异。而这5个复眼指标在低温短日照诱导全周期型禾谷缢管蚜产生的5种蚜型的成蚜中均存在显著性差异,其中,雄蚜、有翅孤雌蚜和产雌性母的复眼区域较大,小眼数量较多;雌性蚜的复眼区域最小,小眼数量也最少。【结论】综合以上指标结果,推测5种蚜型的视觉能力由大到小是：雄蚜＞有翅孤雌蚜＞产雌性母＞无翅孤雌蚜＞雌性蚜。复眼和小眼的这些差异可能与禾谷缢管蚜生殖转换及寄主搜寻存在一定的联系。     

柚木野螟成虫复眼外部形态和超微结构观察

【目的】柚木野螟Eutectona machaeralis主要取食危害珍贵树种柚木。本研究旨在观察研究柚木野螟成虫复眼的形态、组织结构和超微结构,分析其复眼结构特征,为更好了解该物种复杂的视觉行为与感光、趋光机制的关系奠定基础。【方法】运用光学显微镜以及扫描和透射电子显微镜技术观察了柚木野螟成虫复眼的形态、组织结构和超微结构。【结果】柚木野螟成虫复眼着生于头部触角基部,呈椭球形,属对称性复眼。雌、雄成虫复眼分别有2 300~2 755和1 950~2 316个小眼。小眼呈正六边形,表面密被角膜乳突,间隙偶有感觉毛。每个小眼由1个角膜、4个晶锥细胞、1对初级色素细胞,6个次级色素细胞、不同水平面分布的12个视网膜细胞和基膜等组成。沿小眼纵轴11个视网膜细胞的向心侧细胞膜特化成细丝状微绒毛,形成放射状排列的视小杆,组合呈融合型视杆;第12个视网膜细胞位于小眼基部。基膜上方,视网膜细胞和次级色素细胞末端膨大,以轴突形式穿过基底膜。【结论】柚木野螟复眼为典型的重叠像眼,雌、雄成虫小眼排列方式及内部结构无明显差异,但雌、雄虫小眼数量和大小具有明显的性二型现象。     

榆梢小蠹Cryphalus sp.坑道系统的形成过程

在对榆梢小蠹Cryphalus sp.雌雄成虫形态特征细致比较的基础上,系统持续地研究了其坑道系统的形成过程。榆梢小蠹雌雄成虫个体大小差异不大,但雌雄次性征可见,主要区别在于额面是否有隆突和前胸背板后部鳞片多寡。主坑道内的成虫配比方式多为1雌1雄和2雌1雄,少有3雌1雄。榆梢小蠹的坑道系统形成可分为5个阶段,即侵入、召唤交尾、主坑道形成、产卵和子坑道形成,一般共历时40 d左右。     

石斛篓象成虫对不同来源气味的行为反应

【目的】研究不同来源气味对石斛篓象Nassophasis sp.成虫嗅觉选择行为的影响,对于发展新型石斛篓象成虫防治技术具有重要意义。【方法】应用陷阱式嗅觉测定仪测试了石斛篓象成虫对同种个体气味、蛹壳气味、成虫粪便、球花石斛Dendrobium thyrsiflorum受害植株气味的嗅觉反应。【结果】雌成虫气味对雄成虫有引诱作用,对雌成虫没有引诱作用;雄虫气味对雌、雄成虫均无引诱效果。雌、雄蛹壳气味对雌、雄成虫均有显著引诱效果。两性成虫聚集时产生的粪便对雌、雄成虫均有显著引诱作用,雌虫或者雄虫单独放置时产生的粪便对雌、雄成虫均无引诱效果。被雌虫为害的球花石斛植株茎干释放的气味仅对雌虫有引诱作用, 而受雄虫为害后的茎干产生的气味仅对雄成虫有引诱作用。【结论】本研究为进一步分离、 鉴定对该虫有引诱作用的活性物质奠定了基础。     

中国切翅蝗属分类研究及一新种记述 （直翅目：蝗总科:斑腿蝗科）（英文）

本文对中国切翅蝗属Coptacra Stål, 1873进行了系统的分类研究, 附一新种记述, 即夏氏切翅蝗Coptacra xiai sp. nov.（图1: A~F）。 新种同云南切翅蝗C. yunnanensis Zhang et Yin, 2002近似, 不同之处为颜面隆起在中部收缩, 复眼纵径为横径的2.2倍, 前翅中脉域宽于肘脉域, 产卵瓣细长, 光滑。文中并给出该属中国所有已知种的检索表。模式标本保存于河北大学博物馆(MHU)。     

Diurnal and circadian rhythm in compound eye of cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus): changes in structure and photon capture efficiency

Day-night changes in rhabdom size of compound eyes were investigated in three groups of crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus): nymphs and adult males and females. In both adults and nymphs, the rhabdoms were larger at night than during a day. In adults, the mean rhabdom occupation ratios (RORs) of ommatidial retinulae at midnight were about two times greater than the values at midday. This change contributes to control of the photon capture efficiency (PCE) of the eye according to photic environment. The RORs of adult males at midnight were higher than those of both adult females and nymphs. This suggests that the PCE of the compound eye of adult males is the greatest of all groups. Under constant darkness, day-night changes in ROR were detected only in adult males, but neither in adult females nor in nymphs. On the other hand, no day-night changes were detected in any experimental group under constant light. These results suggest that the change in rhabdom size between day and night is an adaptation to the photic environment that is controlled mainly by the light-dark (day-night) cycle. However, the change in male adults is induced by an endogenous circadian clock.     

基于光学显微镜和扫描电镜的新替库蠓成虫形态观察(双翅目： 蠓科)(英文)

【目的】通过发现更多的形态特征,以实现库蠓属Culicoides近似种的准确鉴定和区分。【方法】利用扫描电镜和光学显微镜观察新替库蠓Culicoides newsteadi Austen成虫的形态特征细节,包括具有重要鉴定意义的结构特征,如两性成虫的复眼、触角、触须、口器、中胸盾板、小盾板、翅、后足胫节、爪和生殖器等结构。【结果】发现新替库蠓雌成虫具有6种触角感器,包括腔锥感器、短毛形感器、长毛形感器、刺形感器、直锥形感器和弯直锥形感器;雌雄成虫的盾斑均呈卵形;雄成虫的阳基侧突端部具复杂分支。雌成虫的复眼连接处距离为1.3个小眼面;雌成虫大颚呈剑状,具14~17枚三角形齿;雄成虫后足胫节具16~19枚端梳。【结论】通过光学显微镜和扫描电镜获得的形态特征不仅为蠓科的分类和系统发育研究提供更多的信息,而且为流行病研究和疾控工作提供更多的帮助,进而为蠓科昆虫形态信息的数字化、立体化和网络化提供资料。     

Ontogenetic changes and the stability of rhesus monkey dominance relationships

Dominance relationships were studied in a rhesus monkey group during five consecutive years. The group consisted of eight stable matriarchies and an adult male class which was replaced at the start, and again at the midpoint, of the study. Immature males were selectively harvested to maintain a sex ratio typical of natural troops. Maximum group size during the study was 77 animals.Dominance relationships were remarkably stable, with only 4.4% of dyads failing to show unidirectional relationships. Despite this stability, a linear ranking of all group members was not possible. Male dominance relationships with other males were among the most stable, following the fighting which ensued on male introductions. Male introductions did not disrupt female dominance relationships.Adult female dominance relationships were also quite stable, but immature females slowly achieved dominance over older sisters and females subordinate to their mothers. Such reversals were the result of processes lasting over many months. Many dominance assertions occurred prior to puberty but a significant number occurred following sexual maturity. Maturing females did not reverse dominance relationships according to any particular hierarchial order and, as a consequence, many were subordinate to animals that were dominated by others that they dominated.Although there was an alpha male that was dominant to all animals in the group, adult females dominated most adult males. Adult males, however, often reciprocated aggression directed at them. They almost invariably threatened or countercharged aggressive immature animals regardless of matriarchial membership. Adult males dominated some adult and most young females, even in families containing matriarchs and adult females to which the adult males always submitted.The dominance relationships of young males were similar to those of their sisters, until puberty. Young males did not necessarily bypass adult males that their mothers outranked, and often failed to win against adult females that their mothers dominated. Adolescent female aggression against females is seldom interfered with by adult males, and females may actively aid one another against males. In contrast, the aggression of young males often elicits interference by adult males, and young males often become the targets of redirected aggression in the group. As a consequence, whereas young females rise in rank to positions adjacent to their mothers, adolescent males often suffer losses to animals that they had dominated as juveniles.     

Mahale chimpanzees: grouping patterns and cycling females

The social system of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) is characterized by the fission-fusion of social groups. Several studies have reported that females are less gregarious than males. In the current study, adult female gregariousness depended on their reproductive state. Noncycling adult females (pregnant, lactating, or post reproductive) were observed in large bisexual parties less often than cycling adult females. On the other hand, cycling adult females were observed in large bisexual parties as often as males, regardless of their estrous state. More males were in parties that included cycling adult females with maximal genital swelling (estrous females) than in parties without them. Moreover, a bisexual party including more estrous females contained more males. These results suggest that large bisexual parties of chimpanzees are constructed by a dual mechanism. First, cycling adult females are attracted to parties that consist of the top ranking male and large numbers of adult and adolescent males. Second, adult and adolescent males that did not belong to parties originally are attracted by estrous females and join them. Thus, in Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, bisexual parties of chimpanzees can be characterized as "parties for reproduction."     

Mating behaviour of male orangutans in the Kutai Game Reserve,Indonesia

The mating behaviour of male orangutans was investigated during a 16-month field study at the Kutai Game Reserve, Indonesia. Males competed for access to mates during interactions involving females. The highest-ranking male in the study population consistently displaced lower-ranking adult and subadult males when females were present. Adult males regularly supplanted subadults during similar interactions. Both adult and subadult males forcibly copulated with females. Subadult males, however, achieved more matings than adult males by copulating frequently during prolonged associations with females. Adult males mated with a few females within a defined area, or searched for mating opportunities with more females over larger regions. In this and other studies, individual male reproductive success could not be determined, and therefore remains a critical area for future research.     

Space use in a multi-male group of the group-living lizard

The aim of the study was to determine the space use of individuals in a multi-male group of the armadillo lizard Cordylus cataphractus . Specific focus was on the adult males and females of the group, because, ultimately, the manner in which adult males and females utilize space determines the mating system. A two-dimensional (2D) grid pattern was delineated at the crevice of a free-living, multi-male group to facilitate the recording of the positions of individuals during observations. All marked individuals ( n =55) that were visible were scanned through a telescope, and their respective positions were recorded at 30-min intervals over several days during the breeding season. Arcview 3.2 Geographical Information Software was used to create a computerized replicate of the 2D grid pattern at the crevice and to depict graphically the recorded positions for each individual using a minimum convex polygon procedure. From the polygons generated by this procedure, it was clear that the space use of adult males overlapped greatly with the space use of adult females, but that there was no overlap in space-use among adult males. Space use overlapped greatly among subadults and juveniles and also among these size classes and adult males and females. Adult male C. cataphractus are territorial, defending specific sites at the crevice. The territory of each male in the group incorporated at least one female. The space use of several females overlapped with the space use of two or more males. Males were observed to mate with one or more females, and one female was observed to mate with two different males on more than one occasion. Cordylus cataphractus males display typical territorial polygyny whereas females may be promiscuous.     

Identification of the Aggregation Pheromone of the Melon Thrips,Thrips palmi

The objective of this study was to identify the aggregation pheromone of the melon thrips Thrips palmi, a major pest of vegetable and ornamental plants around the world. The species causes damage both through feeding activities and as a vector of tospoviruses, and is a threat to world trade and European horticulture. Improved methods of detecting and controlling this species are needed and the identification of an aggregation pheromone will contribute to this requirement. Bioassays with a Y-tube olfactometer showed that virgin female T. palmi were attracted to the odour of live males, but not to that of live females, and that mixed-age adults of both sexes were attracted to the odour of live males, indicating the presence of a male-produced aggregation pheromone. Examination of the headspace volatiles of adult male T. palmi revealed only one compound that was not found in adult females. It was identified by comparison of its mass spectrum and chromatographic details with those of similar compounds. This compound had a structure like that of the previously identified male-produced aggregation pheromone of the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis. The compound was synthesised and tested in eggplant crops infested with T. palmi in Japan. Significantly greater numbers of both males and females were attracted to traps baited with the putative aggregation pheromone compared to unbaited traps. The aggregation pheromone of T. palmi is thus identified as (R)-lavandulyl 3-methyl-3-butenoate by spectroscopic, chromatographic and behavioural analysis.     

Factors affecting sex ratio in rearing ofCoeloides sordidator (Hym.: Braconidae)

Five factors known to affect the sex ratio (% of males) in parasitic Hymenoptera were investigated forCoeloides sordidator, a parasitoid ofPissodes weevils. The host age, the age of ovipositing females, and the host of origin had a significant impact on the sex ratio of offspring. In contrast, the number of ovipositing females had an insignificant effect on sex ratio whereas the effect of host density could not be clearly defined. The sex ratio decreased with host age, probably because, like many other hymenopteran parasitoids, females tend to lay male eggs on small hosts and female eggs on larger hosts in order to maximize the size and fitness of their female offspring. The sex ratio also varied with the age of the mother, younger females laying more male eggs and older females more female eggs. The host of origin also had an influence on sex ratio. The strain fromPissodes castaneus was significantly more male-biased than the strain fromP. validirostris, which corroborates previous observations made on field populations     

Male-induced puberty acceleration in young female wild mice: hormonal regulation and source of pheromonal cue

Experiments were designed to examine the influence of adult males on the rate of sexual maturation in young female wild mice. In one experiment, young females were raised in presence of adult males, adult females and in absence of any individual, while in another, they were exposed to urines of: (1) castrated males, (2) spayed females, (3) castrated and TP-treated males, (4) castrated and placebo-injected males. Female maturation as measured by age at vaginal opening and first vaginal oestrus was accelerated by presence of adult males, whereas presence of adult females considerably delayed the vaginal opening and the appearance of first oestrus in young females. In the other set of the experiments, urine from castrated or castrated and placebo-injected males was ineffective in inducing early puberty while urine from spayed females highly delayed the sexual maturation. By contrast, urine from castrated and TP-treated males accelerated the puberty more or less like normal males. The results indicate that male's chemosignal accelerating puberty in young females is present in urine and its production is under the control of androgens. However, the female-originating urinary pheromone which delays the puberty in young females is not regulated by ovarian hormones.     

Female brown-headed cowbirds', Molothrus ater, organization and behaviour reflects male social dynamics

In four large aviaries, we studied social assortment and reproductive behaviour of female brown-headed cowbirds housed with males differing in age class and in corresponding levels of intrasexual interaction. Juvenile and adult females resided with either (1) adult males, (2) juvenile males, (3) adult and juvenile males, or (4) no males. We observed social behaviour of males and females from September 1999 through to the 2000 breeding season. Throughout the year, males in the different conditions showed different levels of social interaction, with adult males being most engaged in male-male interactions and juvenile males being least engaged in male-male interactions. Females in the four conditions differed in their associations with males and with other females. In conditions with adult males, females spent more time near males, approached males more often, and associated with females less. During the breeding season, females in conditions with more adult males copulated more and produced more fertile and viable eggs. In the condition where females were housed with juvenile males, they copulated less, laid fewer eggs and destroyed more of their eggs. Results indicate that throughout the year, females are sensitive to male age and behaviour in their social group, and that this sensitivity can have reproductive consequences. Copyright 2002 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.