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The East-Mediterranean cereal leaf miner Syringopais temperatella Lederer and its larval parasitoids in Israel

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Leaves of durum wheat infested with mines of the cereal leaf miner Syringopais temperatella Lederer (Lepidoptera: Scythridae) were collected from fields in Israel in spring 2016 and 2017. The parasitoids and moths reared from the leaf mines in the lab were identified and counted according to sex. The sex ratios of S. temperatella were 1:0.73 (♀ :♂) in 2016 and 1:0.41 in 2017. A cross-correlation analysis revealed that males appeared three days ahead of females (p<0.05). The following parasitoids were reared: Eulophidae (Cirrospilus vittatus Walker, Diglyphus chabrias (Walker), D. isaea (Walker), D. sensilis Yefremova, D. pusztensis (Erdős & Novicky), Necremnus tidius (Walker), Neochrysocharis formosus (Westwood), Pnigalio gyamiensis Myartseva & Kurashev, P. pectinicornis Linnaeus), Pteromalidae (Norbanus sp.) and Braconidae (Habrobracon stabilis (Wesmail), Apanteles sp.); and Icheumonidae (Campoplex sp.). In all cases, the parasitoids emerged substantially prior to the mass appearance of the moths. The hatching dynamics of ecto- and endoparasitoids were also asynchronous. Most species of ectoparasitoids hatched three days ahead of the endoparasitoids (p<0.05). Syringopais temperatella recorded on clover revealed a similar dynamics of male appearance ahead of female, with a of female-to-male ratio of 1:0.25, and fewer parasitoid species.

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We thank Wolf Kuslitzky (Tel Aviv University, Israel) for identification of the Icheumonidae and Naomi Paz (Tel Aviv University, Israel) for editorial assistance.

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    Zoya Yefremova, Vasiliy Kravchenko & Nikolay Meltzer

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Yefremova, Z., Kravchenko, V. & Meltzer, N. The East-Mediterranean cereal leaf miner Syringopais temperatella Lederer and its larval parasitoids in Israel. Phytoparasitica 45, 707–713 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12600-017-0630-x

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