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Artificial diets for a coleopterous predator of pine bark and wood borers,Trogossita japonica Reitter (Col.: Trogossitidae) were studied. Diets composed of silkworm pupa-powder, dry yeasts, sucrose, peptone, squid liver oil, agar and distilled water supported larval development. The size of diet-reared adults was smaller than that in the control but they mated and oviposited normally when maintained on prey insects. An aseptic rearing method for the larvae of predator, that required a single diet change, was devised.
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Nous avons élaboré et évalué quatre milieux semi-synthétiques pour l'élevage deTrogossita japonica Reitter, prédateur d'insectes sous-corticaux et xylophages des pins. Les larves ont été nourries avec des milieux composés de poudre de chrysalide du ver à soie, levure de bière séchée, sucrose, peptone, huile de foie de seiche, agar et eau distillée. Les adultes obtenus ont été plus petits que ceux du lot témoin, mais ils se sont accouplés et ont pondu normalement quand ils ont été nourris avec des proies-insectes. Une méthode d'élevage des larves sur milieu aseptique a été élaborée, laquelle ne nécessite qu'un changement de milieu nutritionnel au cours du développement larvaire du prédateur.
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Ogura, N., Hosoda, R. Rearing of a coleopterous predator,Trogossita japonica (Col.: Trogossitidae), on artificial diets. Entomophaga 40, 371–378 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02373725
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