Greater impact of host plant species on oviposition of a willow leaf beetle <Emphasis Type="Italic">Plagiodera versicolora</Emphasis> Laicharting (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) during the adult stage than in developing larval stage |
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Authors: | Michihiro Ishihara Noriko Suzue |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences,Osaka Women’s University,Sakai,Japan;2.Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science,Osaka Prefecture University,Sakai,Japan |
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Abstract: | In some herbivorous insects, such as Coleoptera and aphids, not only the host species of larvae, but also those of adults
should be considered as key determinants of potential fecundity because oviposition is affected by the quality of host species
during both larval and adult stages. This study examined the relatively greater impact on host species of the larval or adult
stage on oviposition of the willow leaf beetle Plagiodera versicolora Laicharting (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). We conducted an experiment using a 2 × 2 experimental design, in which either of
two different host plant species was fed in larval and adult stages. Females fed on a locally unavailable host Salix eriocarpa in the adult stage did not lay any eggs, but those fed on the locally available host S. babylonica laid 67–75 eggs on average, irrespective of larval host species. Such reproductively inactive females fed S. eriocarpa as an adult host recovered reproductive activity within 3 weeks after changing the host species to S. babylonica. This result indicated that the host species fed in the adult stage had a greater impact on oviposition than in the larval
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