@article{c539418b20374e5dbdcf9ef32ed85bb4,
title = "Discovery of a new species of Telenomus (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) parasitic on eggs of Bombyx mandarina and Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) in Japan and Taiwan",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Egg parasitoid, Host domestication, Telenomus moricolus",
author = "Kazunori Matsuo and Yoshimi Hirose and Takeshi Yokoyama and Yumiko Nakajima and Hsu, {Yu Feng} and Yutaka Banno",
note = "Funding Information: For our taxonomic study, eggs of B. mandarina were collected from Japan and Taiwan in 2011 and 2008–2012, respectively. Egg masses of B. mori, which were laid on filter papers, were attached to branches of M. alba as egg traps from May to November 2010–2011 in Fuchu, Tokyo to obtain adults of Telenomus species. The silkworm eggs were provided by Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and Kyushu University, with partial support from the National Bio Resource Project of the MEXT, Japan. Each egg trap was deployed for 7 d in the field. Field-collected eggs of B. man-darina and egg traps of B. mori were kept at room temperature (15–25°C) until the emergence of adult wasps. Adults that emerged from eggs of B. mandarina and B. mori were preserved in 99% ethanol for morphological observation and DNA analysis. 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. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018.",
year = "2018",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/jisesa/iey072",
language = "English",
volume = "18",
journal = "Journal of Insect Science",
issn = "1536-2442",
publisher = "Library of the University of Arizona",
number = "4",
}