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Behavioral responses of the egg parasitoid Trissolcus japonicus to volatiles from adults of its stink bug host, Halyomorpha halys

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Halyomorpha halys, originating from East Asia, has become an important agricultural pest in northern temperate regions since its accidental introduction into North America in the mid-1990s and Europe in 2007. Trissolcus japonicus is the predominant egg parasitoid of this pest in its native range. Here, we tested the hypothesis that T. japonicus uses volatiles associated with H. halys adults during host location. The effects of these volatile compounds on H. halys adults were also assessed. Chemical analysis with GC-MS and electrophysiological analysis with GC-EAD revealed the presence of two bioactive volatile compounds from H. halys adults, n-tridecane and (E)-2-decenal. In the Y-tube assays, female T. japonicus were attracted by n-tridecane but strongly repelled by (E)-2-decenal. Furthermore, host searching time of female T. japonicus was significantly reduced when an H. halys egg mass was treated with n-tridecane and prolonged when treated with (E)-2-decenal or a mixture of (E)-2-decenal and n-tridecane. Male H. halys were significantly attracted by n-tridecane, whereas females had no response to this compound in the Y-tube assays. (E)-2-Decenal strongly repelled male and female H. halys in the Y-tube assays. We discuss the multifunctional kairomonal and other possible roles of these semiochemicals at different trophic levels in the context of intra- and inter-specific chemical communication, in the H. halys–T. japonicus system.

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We thank Dr Qing-Hai Fan of Plant Health and Environment Laboratory, Ministry for Primary Industries, New Zealand, for providing comments on early versions of the manuscript. We thank three anonymous reviewers for their critical comments to the manuscript. We also thank Matthew Cock (CABI) for reviewing the English text. This research was supported by China’s donation to the CABI Development Fund.

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  1. College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China

    Yong-Zhi Zhong & Guo-Hua Chen

  2. MoA-CABI Joint Laboratory for Bio-safety, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing, 100193, China

    Yong-Zhi Zhong, Jin-Ping Zhang, Rui Tang, Hai-Xia Zhan & Feng Zhang

  3. CABI East Asia, 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, 100081, China

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  4. Institute of Equipment Technology, Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, Beijing, 100029, China

    Li-Li Ren

  5. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1-5 West Beichen Road, Beijing, 100101, China

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Zhong, YZ., Zhang, JP., Ren, LL. et al. Behavioral responses of the egg parasitoid Trissolcus japonicus to volatiles from adults of its stink bug host, Halyomorpha halys . J Pest Sci 90, 1097–1105 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-017-0884-6

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