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A comparison of the larval overwintering biology of the striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), in rice and water-oat fields

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It has been suggested that the striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker), has developed distinct populations inhabiting rice Oryza sativa (Linnaeus) and water-oats Zizania latifolia (Turcz). In this study, we compared several biological traits between overwintering larvae from rice and water-oat fields during the winter of 2010. The parasitism rate was significantly higher in the larvae that overwintered in the rice field than in those that overwintered in the water-oat field. The average body weight of overwintering larvae and the weight of 3-day-old pupae, as well as the number of eggs carried by adult females, were all significantly greater in the samples from the water-oat field. The diapause intensity, defined as the number of days required until pupation by overwintering larvae transferred to 25 °C and L:D 16:8 h, decreased progressively from January to March but decreased more rapidly in the water-oat field. Our results demonstrate differences in the overwintering biology of C. suppressalis larvae from rice and water-oat fields. These differences may contribute to the differentiation and reproductive isolation between host-plant populations in this species.

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The authors thank Prof. Jian-Guo Chen of Hubei University for his assistance with statistical analysis and two anonymous reviewers for their critical reading and helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. The research was supported partly by grants from the National Special Transgenic Project from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (2011ZX08012-004) and Special Fund for Agro Scientific Research in the Public Interest (200903017-08).

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    Nan Ding, Qing-Hua Zhu, Wei-Hua Ma, Fen Zhu & Xiao-Ping Wang

  2. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden

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Ding, N., Dalin, P., Zhu, QH. et al. A comparison of the larval overwintering biology of the striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), in rice and water-oat fields. Appl Entomol Zool 48, 147–153 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-013-0164-8

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