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1 December 2014 Qualitative Analysis of Aphid and Primary Parasitoid Trophic Relations of Genus Alloxysta (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae: Charipinae)
Mar Ferrer-Suay, Marina Janković, Jesús Selfa, F. J. Frank Van Veen, Željko Tomanović, Katarina Kos, Ehsan Rakhshani, Juli Pujade-Villar
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Charipinae hyperparasitoids affect effectiveness of the primary parasitoids of aphids by decreasing their abundance and modifying their behavior. As a result, increase of aphid populations can cause severe yield losses in some crops. Therefore, ecological studies on the subfamily Charipinae have a great economical and biological importance. Host specificity of these hyperparasitoids is still under debate and for many Charipinae species very little is known about their trophic relations. Here, we give a comprehensive overview of the trophic relationships between the Charipinae species of the genus Alloxysta Förster and their aphid and primary parasitoids hosts, worldwide. Within this subfamily, Alloxysta arcuata (Kieffer), Alloxysta brevis (Thomson), Alloxysta fuscicornis (Hartig), and Alloxysta victrix (Westwood) are the most generalist species sharing many aphid hosts, while for primary parasitoid hosts these are A. arcuata, A. brevis, Alloxysta pleuralis (Cameron), and A. victrix. Alloxysta citripes (Thomson), Alloxysta halterata (Thomson), Alloxysta leunisii (Hartig), and Alloxysta ramulifera (Thomson) appear, up to now, as the most specialized in relation to the primary parasitoid hosts. Primary parasitoids of the genera Aphidius Nees, Lysiphlebus Förster, Praon Haliday, and Trioxys Haliday are the most common hosts for Alloxysta species, and the common host aphid species belong to the genera Aphis L., Uroleucon Mordvilko, Myzus Passerini, and Sitobion Mordvilko. Host range is analyzed for each Alloxysta species, as well as the extent of overlap between them. We used Jaccard's distance and a hierarchical cluster analysis to determine the host range dissimilarity. A permutation test has been applied to analyze if the host range dissimilarity is significantly different from what is expected by chance. We have calculated additional qualitative measures that complement well the Alloxysta niche overlap analysis and evaluated their host specificity using different indices and bipartite networks.

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Mar Ferrer-Suay, Marina Janković, Jesús Selfa, F. J. Frank Van Veen, Željko Tomanović, Katarina Kos, Ehsan Rakhshani, and Juli Pujade-Villar "Qualitative Analysis of Aphid and Primary Parasitoid Trophic Relations of Genus Alloxysta (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae: Charipinae)," Environmental Entomology 43(6), 1485-1495, (1 December 2014). https://doi.org/10.1603/EN14131
Received: 12 May 2014; Accepted: 1 August 2014; Published: 1 December 2014
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KEYWORDS
Alloxysta
Charipinae
network
specialization
trophic relation
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