Abstract
Apantelesflavipes is a gregarious endoparasitoid otPorthesia scintillans. A new method for the estimation of energy available to the parasitoid is presented and used to prepare an individual energy budget for A.flavipes.A.flavipes consumes 13.9 J of the host tissue and assimilates 13.4 J. Production amounted to 10.1 J. Efficiencies of assimilation and production are 96.2 and 75.3 % respectively. Metamorphic metabolic rate was 0.555 kj/g/day.
Résumé
Apanteles flavipes est une endoparasitoïde gregarieuse du Porthesia scintillans. On propose ici une nouvelle méthode pour l’estimation de l’énergie available pour la parasitoïde et le budget de l’énergie individuelle. A. flavipes consomme 13.9 J du tissus-hôte et assimile 13.4 J Production est 10.1 J. Efficacités d’assimilations et de production sont 96.2% et 753% respectativement. Le rate de métamorphique metabolism est 0.555 kj/g/jour.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Calow P. (1977) Ecology, evolution and energetics: A study in metabolic adaptations. Adv. Ecol. Res. 10, 1–60.
Chlodny J.(1968) Evaluation of some parameters of the individual energy budget of the larvae of Pteromalus puparum (Pteromalidae) and Pimpla instigator (Ichneumanidae). Ekol. Pol. Ser. A16, 505–513.
Fisher R.C. (1971) Aspects of the physiology of endoparasitic Hymenoptera. Biol. Rev. 46, 243–278.
Howell J. and Fisher R.C. (1977) Food conversion efficiency of a parasitic wasp Nemeritis canescens. Ecol. Entomol. 21, 143–151.
Moon T.J. and Carefoot T.H. (1972) The energy requirement of metamorphosis of the greater waxmoth Galleria melonella. Can. J. Zool. 50, 60–75.
Muthukrishnan J. and Pandian T.J. (1987) Insect Energetics. In Animal Energetics, Vol 11. Academic Press, New York. pp. 394–541.
Muthukrishnan J. and Senthamizhselvan M. (1987) Effect of parasitization by Apanteles flavipes on the biochemical composition of Diacrisia obliqua. Insect Sei. Applic. 8, 235–238.
Petrusewicz K. and Macfadyen A. (1970) Productivity of terrestrial animals. In Principles and Methods. Blackwell, Oxford, p. 190.
Prakash P.N. and Pandian T.J. (1978) Energy flow from spider eggs through dipteran parasite and hymenopteran hyperparasite populations. Oecologia (Berl.) 33, 209–219.
Schroeder L.A. (1981) Consumer growth efficiencies: Their limits and relationships to ecological energetics. J. therm. Biol. 93, 805–818.
Scriber J.M. and Slansky F. Jr. (1981) Nutritional ecology of immature insects. A. Rev. Entomol. 26, 183–211.
Senthamizhselvan M. (1987) Physiological studies on chosen insect pests, predators and parasites. Ph. D. thesis, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. p. 189.
Senthamizhselvan M. and Murugan K. (1988) Bioenergetics and reproductive efficiency of Atractomorpha crenulata (Orthoptera) in relation to food quality. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sei. 97, 505–519.
Slansky F. Jr. and Scriber J.M. (1985) Food consumption and utilization. In Comparative Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology. (Edited by Kerkut G.A. and Gilbert L.I.) pp. 87–164. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
Waldbauer G.P. (1968) The consumption and utilization of food by insects. Adv. Insect. Physiol. 5, 229–288.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Senthamizhselvan, M., Muthukrishnan, J. Bioenergetics of Apanteles Flavipes Cameron (Hymenopterarbraconidae), a Parasitoid of Porthesia Scintillans Walker (Lepidoptera:Lymantridae). Int J Trop Insect Sci 10, 295–299 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758400003520
Received:
Revised:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758400003520