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Assessment of color response and activity rhythms of the invasive black planthopper Ricania speculum (Walker, 1851) using sticky traps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2019

Giuseppe Mazza Open the ORCID record for Giuseppe Mazza [Opens in a new window] ,
Daniele Marraccini ,
Emiliano Mori ,
Simone Priori ,
Leonardo Marianelli ,
Pio Federico Roversi  and
Elisabetta Gargani
Giuseppe Mazza*
Affiliation:
CREA Research Center for Plant Protection and Certification, Firenze, Italy
Daniele Marraccini
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Emiliano Mori
Affiliation:
Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Simone Priori
Affiliation:
CREA Research Center for Agricultural and Environment, Firenze, Italy
Leonardo Marianelli
Affiliation:
CREA Research Center for Plant Protection and Certification, Firenze, Italy
Pio Federico Roversi
Affiliation:
CREA Research Center for Plant Protection and Certification, Firenze, Italy
Elisabetta Gargani
Affiliation:
CREA Research Center for Plant Protection and Certification, Firenze, Italy
*
Author for correspondence: Giuseppe Mazza, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

To be effective, management strategies of invasive alien species cannot ignore their spatiotemporal behavior particularly those exerting serious damages to human activities. The black planthopper Ricania speculum is an Asian insect that has been reported as an alien invasive species in Italy, where it threatens local plant diversity, including important crops. In our work, we analyzed the activity rhythms of this species through circular statistics and the efficiency of chromotropic traps to capture adult individuals. Captures were carried out in central Italy, where the black planthopper is showing a remarkable range expansion, after its first discovery in 2009. We observed that the species was mainly crepuscular, with a high intersexual activity overlap. Activity rhythms changed between July–August and September–October, with changing heliophany, but peaked at sunset and were the lowest in the second half of the night and early morning. The insects were mostly caught by green traps, particularly in September, which is the period of egg-laying inside the leaves; conversely, orange ones were avoided, and yellow ones captured proportionally to their local availability. Strategies for controlling this species should consider concentrating trapping effort during the activity peak, using green sticky traps to enhance the capture success of each trap, with the lowest impact over non-target species.

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Chromotropic trapsfulgoromorphahemipteraItalymonitoringricaniidae
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 110 , Issue 4 , August 2020 , pp. 480 - 486
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These authors equally contributed to the present work

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