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Host availability affects the interaction between pupal parasitoid Coptera haywardi (Hymenoptera: Diiapridae) and larval–pupal parasitoid Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2018

P. Montoya*
Affiliation:
Programa Moscafrut SAGARPA-IICA, Camino a los Cacaoatales S/N, C.P. 30860, Metapa de Domínguez, Chiapas, México
C. Gálvez
Affiliation:
Programa Moscafrut SAGARPA-IICA, Camino a los Cacaoatales S/N, C.P. 30860, Metapa de Domínguez, Chiapas, México Instituto de Biociencias, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Campus IV, C.P. 30700, Tapachula, Chiapas, México
F. Díaz-Fleischer
Affiliation:
INBIOTECA, Universidad Veracruzana, Av. de las Culturas Veracruzanas 101, Col. Emiliano Zapata, Xalapa, Veracruz, C.P. 91090, México
*
*Author for correspondence Phone: +52 9626435059 Fax: +52 9626435059 E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

The use of multiple species in biological control programmes is controversial when interactions among them are not fully understood. We determined the response of the pupal parasitoid Coptera haywardi (Oglobin) to different availability of Anastrepha ludens (Loew) pupae previously parasitized or not by larval–pupal Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead). The two types of pupae were exposed at different ages and proportions to different numbers of C. haywardi females for 48 h. The performance of C. haywardi adults emerging from parasitized and unparasitized pupae was measured. Coptera haywardi prefers to attack unparasitized A. ludens pupae rather than pupae parasitized by D. longicaudata. However, when the availability of unparasitized pupae was low or the number of foraging females was high, C. haywardi competed against early immature stages of the D. longicaudata, or hyperparasitized, feeding directly on the advanced-immature developmental stages of the early acting species. Adults of C. haywardi emerging as hyperparasitoids were no different in size, fecundity and longevity from those emerging as primary parasitoids. Our data suggest that simultaneous use of these species in augmentative biological control projects may be feasible but should be carefully planned in order to avoid any detrimental effect of its interaction.

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