TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovery of a new species of Telenomus (Hymenoptera
T2 - Scelionidae) parasitic on eggs of Bombyx mandarina and Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) in Japan and Taiwan
AU - Matsuo, Kazunori
AU - Hirose, Yoshimi
AU - Yokoyama, Takeshi
AU - Nakajima, Yumiko
AU - Hsu, Yu Feng
AU - Banno, Yutaka
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr. M. Maruyama and Ms. Y. Matsuo for their support in analyzing mtDNA of Telenomus species. We also thank the Material Management Center at Kyushu University for substantial support to implement appropriate procedures to obtain the parasitoid specimens. This study was partly supported by the Global COE Program (Center of Excellence for Asian Conservation Ecology as a Basis of Human-Nature Mutualism), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan to K.M.
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PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - We reared a Telenomus species from eggs of Bombyx mandarina (Moore) (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) and Bombyx mori (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) in Japan, and from eggs of B. mandarina in Taiwan. Morphological examination revealed that this Telenomus species is new to science. In this article, we describe it as Telenomus moricolus Matsuo et Hirose, sp. nov. Because B. mandarina is considered to be an ancestor of B. mori, a domestic insect, it is reasonable to assume that B. mandarina is an original host of T. moricolus.This is the second discovery of an egg parasitoid attacking wild and domesticated silkworms, following the first discovery of T. theophilae, a Chinese species.The significance of the discovery of T. moricolus is discussed in relation to examining the effects of host-insect domestication on egg parasitism.
AB - We reared a Telenomus species from eggs of Bombyx mandarina (Moore) (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) and Bombyx mori (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) in Japan, and from eggs of B. mandarina in Taiwan. Morphological examination revealed that this Telenomus species is new to science. In this article, we describe it as Telenomus moricolus Matsuo et Hirose, sp. nov. Because B. mandarina is considered to be an ancestor of B. mori, a domestic insect, it is reasonable to assume that B. mandarina is an original host of T. moricolus.This is the second discovery of an egg parasitoid attacking wild and domesticated silkworms, following the first discovery of T. theophilae, a Chinese species.The significance of the discovery of T. moricolus is discussed in relation to examining the effects of host-insect domestication on egg parasitism.
KW - Egg parasitoid
KW - Host domestication
KW - Telenomus moricolus
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U2 - 10.1093/jisesa/iey072
DO - 10.1093/jisesa/iey072
M3 - Article
C2 - 30137435
AN - SCOPUS:85054775384
VL - 18
JO - Journal of Insect Science
JF - Journal of Insect Science
SN - 1536-2442
IS - 4
M1 - iey072
ER -