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1 August 2004 Life Table Study of Sitotroga cerealella (Lepidoptera: Gelichiidae), a Strain from West Africa
Lise Stengård Hansen, Henrik Skovgård, Kerstin Hell
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Abstract

Life table studies for the Angoumois grain moth, Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier), a pest on stored maize, Zea mays L., in West Africa, were conducted as part of the expansion of a mathematical simulation model that has been developed for two pests of stored maize. The effects of four temperatures (20, 25, 30, and 35°C) and two relative humidity levels (44 and 80%) on developmental time, age-specific survivorship and fecundity, sex ratio, and intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm) of S. cerealella were investigated. Sex ratio was close to 1:1 at all temperatures and humidity. Minimum development time occurred close to 32°C and 80% RH for both males and females, and developmental time of females was significantly shorter than that of males. Immature survivorship was highest between 25 and 30°C and 80% RH and lowest at 35°C under both humidity conditions. A similar low level was found at 20°C and 44% RH. The greatest fecundity (124 eggs per female) occurred at 20°C, 80% RH. The maximum rm value was 0.086 d−1 at 30°C and 80% RH, but the growth rate declined dramatically at 35°C. If compared with the few other life table studies conducted on this species on maize in India and North America, some variation among the strains becomes evident. A common conclusion for the current study and previous ones is that optimal population development for S. cerealella occurs at ≈30°C and at high humidity.

Lise Stengård Hansen, Henrik Skovgård, and Kerstin Hell "Life Table Study of Sitotroga cerealella (Lepidoptera: Gelichiidae), a Strain from West Africa," Journal of Economic Entomology 97(4), 1484-1490, (1 August 2004). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493-97.4.1484
Received: 23 January 2004; Accepted: 1 April 2004; Published: 1 August 2004
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KEYWORDS
Angoumois grain moth
intrinsic rate of natural increase
life tables
maize
Sitotroga cerealella
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