虫疫霉属新种和中国新记录

本文报道了虫疫霉属2个新种及1个中国新记录种。新种北虫疫霉(Eryniaborea Fan et Li sp.nov.)发生于西北及东北地区的丽蝇成虫体上,菜叶蜂虫疫霉(Eryniaathaliae Li et Fan sp.nov)发生于陕西杨陵的黄翅菜叶蜂幼虫;新记录种近藤虫疫霉(Erynia kondoiensis Milner)发生于福州的烟蚜虫体上。本文详细描述了新种的形态。     

Conservation biological control with the fungal pathogen Pandora neoaphidis: implications of aphid species, host plant and predator foraging

Abstract 1 Pandora neoaphidis is an important aphid‐specific fungal pathogen in temperate agroecosystems. Laboratory studies were carried out to obtain baseline data on factors that may affect its performance in conservation biological control. 2 Virulence of P. neoaphidis was assessed in dose–response bioassays against Microlophium carnosum on nettle, Uroleucon jaceae on knapweed, Acyrthosiphon pisum on bean and bird's‐foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus, and Metopolophium dirhodum on barley and Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus. The most susceptible aphid was A. pisum feeding on bean with an LD₅₀ of 19 conidia per mm², whereas U. jaceae had an LD₅₀ of 104 conidia per mm² and was least susceptible to infection. 3 The presence of foraging adult ladybirds, Coccinella septempunctata, increased transmission of P. neoaphidis from infected cadavers to apterae of M. carnosum, U. jacea, and A. pisum by 7–30% at the largest cadaver density tested. Adult coccinellids that had previously foraged on nettle, knapweed, bean or bird's‐foot trefoil transfered conidia to A. pisum on bean and induced infections in 2–13% of aphids. 4 Conidia of P. neoaphidis dispersed passively in the airstream from sporulating M. carnosum cadavers on nettle plants and initiated infections in A. pisum colonies feeding on bean (4–33%) or M. dirhodum on barley (3%) located within 1.0 m of the nettle source. 5 The results suggest that M. carnosum and A. pisum may be more useful as reservoirs for P. neoaphidis in noncrop and crop areas than U. jaceae or M. dirhodum, and infection and dispersal between habitats could be enhanced in the presence of coccinellids.     

Influence of the aphid pathogen Pandora neoaphidis on the foraging behaviour of the aphid parasitoid Aphidius ervi

Abstract.  1. The parasitoid Aphidius ervi and the entomopathogenic fungus Pandora neoaphidis both require successful invasion of an aphid host to complete their life cycle. A shorter developmental period allows P. neoaphidis to out-compete A. ervi. Aphidius ervi may reduce this fitness cost by avoiding aphid colonies containing P. neoaphidis . Here the response of A. ervi towards P. neoaphidis was assessed using sequential experiments designed to replicate different stages of parasitoid foraging behaviour.
2. Entry rate experiments showed that A. ervi entered aphid colonies containing P. neoaphidis -sporulating cadavers and that there was no significant difference in the attraction of A. ervi to aphid-damaged Vicia faba plants containing either healthy Acyrthosiphon pisum or P. neoaphidis -sporulating cadavers.
3. Observational behavioural experiments indicated that the presence of P. neoaphidis did not affect the search time or total foraging time of A. ervi on V. faba plants infested with either healthy A. pisum or P. neoaphidis -sporulating cadavers.
4. In Petri dish bioassays using aphids infected with P. neoaphidis over a period of 120 h, A. ervi showed no difference in attack rate against uninfected aphids or living aphids infected with P. neoaphidis for 1, 24, 48, 72, or 96 h. However, sporulating cadavers (120 h infection) were not attacked.
5.  Aphidius ervi appears only able to detect the presence of P. neoaphidis once the host is dead and sporulation has started. The fitness of A. ervi may therefore be severely reduced when foraging in P. neoaphidis -infected aphid colonies.     

蚜虫的病原真菌新种——安徽虫疫霉

1984年初冬在安徽长江南北大面积蔬菜的桃蚜种群中发生真菌流行病。病原鉴定为虫霉目新种安徽虫疫霉(Erynia anhuiensis Li sp.nov)。分生孢子梗二歧分枝;初生分生孢子单核,双囊壁,长椭圆形、长卵形或倒拟卵形,前二者大小为17.1—33.3×5.9—12.9μm(平均24.7×8.3),长径比2.0—5.4(平均3.0),后者12.6—30.8×8.1—16.5μm(平均22.7×11.6),长径比1.4—2.5(平均2.0);有囊状体及假根,假根有固着器。外休眠孢子球形,光滑,透明,直径22.1—31.9μm(平均26.6)     

飞虱虫疫霉的产孢生物学研究

飞虱虫疫霉Erynia delphacis (Hori) 是水稻害虫稻褐飞虱的天敌,在田间常造成流行病,使大量褐飞虱死亡。在研究利用真菌防治害虫方面,一个很重要的问题就是如何在人工培养基上培养病原菌,并获得大量可以保存的孢子然后用于田间。本试验的重点在于用液体培养的方法获得这种菌的分生孢子,并测定了液体和固体培养的产孢量和产孢时间。     

沫蝉的病原真菌新种——巨孢虫疫霉

在浙江省百山祖自然保护区虫生真菌调查中发现松树上的菱沫蝉(Agrophora sp.)的新病原真菌一种,因其分生孢子远大于任何已知种虫疫霉,故定为新种巨孢虫疫霉(Eryniagigantea Li,Chert et Xu)。其初生分生孢子长倒拟卵形或拟纺锤形,对称或略弯曲,42.6—76.7×l 2.3—26.0μm(平均57.6×l 8.6μm),长径比2.2—4.9(平均3.1);顶稍圆或尖削;基部乳突略钝,有时有孢领。次生分生孢子倒拟卵形至广倒拟卵形;毛管分生孢子未见。假根成束。假囊状体及休眠孢子未见。     

Linking the bacterial community in pea aphids with host-plant use and natural enemy resistance

Abstract.  1. Pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum , harbour a range of facultative accessory bacteria (secondary symbionts), including those informally known as PASS (R-type), PAR, PABS (T-type), and PAUS (U-type).
2. To explore the relationship between possession of these bacteria and ecologically important traits of A. pisum , correlations between the accessory bacteria found in 47 parthenogenetic clones of A. pisum and the host plant on which each clone was collected and its susceptibility to natural enemies were surveyed.
3. The bacterial complement varied with plant of collection. PAUS (U) was present in all of 12 clones affiliated to Trifolium but was otherwise rare, while PABS (T) and PASS (R) occurred at significantly higher frequency in clones from Lotus and Vicia , respectively, than clones from other plants.
4. Possession of PABS (T) was associated strongly with resistance to the parasitoid Aphidius eadyi and weakly with resistance to Aphidius ervi . Aphids carrying PAUS (U) were more resistant to the fungal pathogen Pandora ( Erynia ) neoaphidis , although this correlation was complicated by a strong association with host-plant use.     

Entomopathogenic fungi stimulate transgenerational wing induction in pea aphids,Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

1. Aphid natural enemies include not only predators and parasitoids but also pathogens, of which fungi are the most studied for biological control. While wing formation in aphids is induced by abiotic conditions, it is also affected by biotic interactions with their arthropod natural enemies. Wing induction via interactions with arthropod natural enemies is mediated by the increase in their physical contact when alarmed (pseudo‐crowding). Pathogenic fungi do not trigger this alarm behaviour in aphids and, therefore, no pseudo‐crowding occurs. 2. We hypothesise that, while pathogenic fungi will stimulate maternally induced wing formation, the mechanism is different and is influenced by pathogen specificity. We tested this hypothesis using two entomopathogenic fungi, Pandora neoaphidis and Beauveria bassiana, an aphid specialist and a generalist respectively, on the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris. 3. We first demonstrate that pea aphids infected with either pathogen and maintained in groups on broad bean plants produced a higher proportion of winged morphs than uninfected control aphids. We then show that, when maintained in isolation, aphids infected with either pathogen also produced higher proportions of winged offspring than control aphids. There was no difference between P. neoaphidis and B. bassiana in their effects on wing induction in either experiment. 4. Unlike the effect of predators and parasitoids on pea aphid wing induction, the effect of pathogens is independent of physical contact with other aphids, suggesting that physiological cues induce wing formation in infected aphids. It is possible that aphids benefit from wing induction by escaping infected patches whilst pathogens may benefit through dispersion. Possible mechanisms of wing induction are discussed.     

Genotype and temperature influence pea aphid resistance to a fungal entomopathogen

Abstract. The influence of temperature on life history traits of four Acyrthosiphon pisum clones was investigated, together with their resistance to one genotype of the fungal entomopathogen Erynia neoaphidis . There was no difference among aphid clones in development rate, but they did differ in fecundity. Both development rate and fecundity were influenced by temperature, but all clones showed similar responses to the changes in temperature (i.e. the interaction term was nonsignificant). However, there were significant differences among clones in susceptibility to the pathogen, and this was influenced by temperature. Furthermore, the clones differed in how temperature influenced susceptibility, with susceptibility rankings changing with temperature. Two clones showed changes in susceptibility which mirrored changes in the in vitro vegetative growth rate of E. neoaphidis at different temperatures, whereas two other clones differed considerably from this expected response. Such interactions between genotype and temperature may help maintain heritable variation in aphid susceptibility to fungal pathogen attack and have implications for our understanding of disease dynamics in natural populations. This study also highlights the difficulties of drawing conclusions about the efficacy of a biological control agent when only a restricted range of pest genotypes or environmental conditions are considered.