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1 September 2014 Predation Efficiency of Pselliopus latispina (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae)
Jerónimo Landeros-Flores, Salvador Ordaz-Silva, Agustín Hernández-Juárez, Ernesto Cerna-Chávez, Gabriel Gallegos-Morales, Julio César Chacón-Hernández
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Abstract

Reduviidae (Hemiptera) is a family of polyphagous predators that can be used as biological control agents for one or more pest species. Predator efficiency of Pselliopus latispina over Tetranychus urticae Koch females was evaluated using the functional response at different mite densities. Mites were exposed to predation in Petri dishes under laboratory controlled conditions during 24 hours. Predators consumed an average of 56.3 individuals of 64 adult females of T. urticae, with a type II functional response according to Holling's instant discovery rate model (a') of 1.0597, and a handling time (th) of 0.00442. These results indicated that Pselliopus latispina is a predator with broad perspective that can be used in different crops.

Jerónimo Landeros-Flores, Salvador Ordaz-Silva, Agustín Hernández-Juárez, Ernesto Cerna-Chávez, Gabriel Gallegos-Morales, and Julio César Chacón-Hernández "Predation Efficiency of Pselliopus latispina (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae)," Southwestern Entomologist 39(3), 651-654, (1 September 2014). https://doi.org/10.3958/059.039.0324
Published: 1 September 2014
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