Life table and predation data were collected for Coccinella septempunctata (Linnaeus) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) feeding on three different host aphid species, Aphis craccivora (Koch) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), and Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), under laboratory conditions, using age-stage, two-sex life table. The preadult developmental period of C. septempunctata was the shortest on M. persicae (21.12 d) and the longest on A. craccivora (28.81 d). Net reproductive rate (R0) ranged from 77.31 offspring per individual on A. craccivora to 165.97 offspring per individual on M. persicae. Mean generation time (T) ranged from 39.10 d on M. persicae to 51.96 d on L. erysimi. Values of the intrinsic rate of increase (r) decreased in the order M. persicae, A. craccivora, and L. erysimi (0.1302, 0.0864 and 0.0848 d-1, respectively). The highest finite rate of increase (λ) was observed on M. persicae (1.1391 d-1) and the lowest was observed on A. craccivora and L. erysimi (1.0903 and 1.0885 d-1, respectively). This information will be useful in relation to the mass rearing of C. septempunctata in biological control systems.
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27 February 2018
Age-Stage, Two-Sex Life Tables of the Lady Beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Feeding on Different Aphid Species
Muhammad Farooq,
Muhammad Shakeel,
Ayesha Iftikhar,
Muhammad Rafiq Shahid,
Xun Zhu
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Journal of Economic Entomology
Vol. 111 • No. 2
April 2018
Vol. 111 • No. 2
April 2018
aphid species
Coccinella septempunctata
life table
population parameters