ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Parasitoid complex of cabbage large white butterfly Pieris brassicae (L.) (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) in Urmia with new records from Iran
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Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, West Azerbaijan Province, P.O. Box 165, Iran
Corresponding author
Mehdi Razmi
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, West Azerbaijan Province, P.O. Box 165, Iran
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, West Azerbaijan Province, P.O. Box 165, Iran
Journal of Plant Protection Research 2011;51(3):248-251
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ABSTRACT
Surveys for parasitoids attacking larvae and pupae of
Pieris brassicae
(L.) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) were conducted in the
Brassica
agro-ecosystem in the Urmia region, northwest of Iran, between 2008 and 2009. Parasitized hosts were collected from infested
plants placed in
Brassica
crops during the growing season (June-October), and from the natural
P. brassicae
population on the common weeds
Capparis spinosa
L.
(Capparaceae),
Crambe orientalis
L.
(Brassicaceae) and
Raphanus raphanistrum
L.
(Brassicaceae) during
the summer production break (December). Ten species of primary parasitoids –
Cotesia glomerata
(L.) (Hym., Braconidae),
Brachymeria
femorata
Panzer (Hym.: Chalcididae),
Aprostocetus
taxi
Graham
(Hym.: Eulophidae),
Agrothereutes adustus
Grav.,
Blapsidotes vicinus
Grav.,
Hyposoter clauses
Brischke (Hym.: Ichneumonidae),
Pteromalus puparum
(L.) (Hym.: Pteromalidae) and
Exorista larvarum
(L.),
Ex-
orista segregata
Rondan,
Phryxe vulgaris
Fallén (Dip.: Tachinidae) were identified. The most numerous were
P. puparum
(with 49.65% in
2008 and 46.13% in 2009) and
C. glomerata
(with 43.45% and 45.57% in 2008 and 2009, respectively). The following species:
A. adustus
,
A. taxi
,
B. vicinus
,
B. femorata
,
H. clauses
and
P. vulgaris,
were newly recorded for the Iranian fauna. With the exception of
B. femorata
and
P. vulgaris
, all of the above mentioned species were recorded for the first time as parasitoid on
P. brassicae
from Iran.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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