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Assessment of potential non-target effects of Tetrastichus julis, a biological control agent of the cereal leaf beetle, Oulema melanopus

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The cereal leaf beetle, Oulema melanopus (L.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), is an emerging pest of cereal crops in the Prairie Provinces of Canada. In other regions with a history of this pest, it is managed primarily through biological control with the parasitoid Tetrastichus julis (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). In this paper we report a study conducted during the summers of 2007 and 2008 in Pullman, Washington (USA), and 2010 and 2012 in Lethbridge, Alberta (Canada) assessing potential non-target effects of T. julis. The chrysomelid species tested included the following native and introduced species of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae): Cassida azurea Fabricius, Chrysolina quadrigemina (Suffrian), Crioceris duodecimpunctata (L.), Deloyala guttata (Olivier), Galerucella calmariensis (L.), Gastrophysa cyanea Melsheimer, Gastrophysa polygoni L., Jonthonota nigripes (Olivier), Lema daturaphila Kogan & Geode, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), Lilioceris lilii (Scopoli), and Xanthogaleruca luteola (Müller) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Tetrastichus julis did not parasitize any of these potential non-target species. Thus the occurrence and relocation of T. julis in the Prairie Provinces of Canada and northwestern USA poses a relatively low risk to biodiversity.

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Acknowledgments

For providing us with Chrysomelidae specimens we thank Laurent LeSage, Ken Fry, Peter Mason, Jacob Miall, Andrea Brauner, and Drusilla Pearson. For technical support we thank Lacey Jones, Carolyn Herle, Tracy Larson, Michaela Schmitke, Chelsea Durand, Stephanie Behrens, and William van der Weide. For identification of specimens we thank Laurent LeSage and Hume Douglas. For other personal communications and checking museum collections we thank Alec McClay, Rob Bourchier, Karine Savard, Dave Larson, Cory Sheffield, Michael Gates, and Alex Konstantinov. We thank Felix Sperling and Danny Shpeley for sending specimens of O. palustris to the CNC. We thank Pat Bouchard for CO1 barcodes of O. melanopus. We thank Karen Mah for helping with the literature research. We thank Rose De Clerck-Floate and Eva Pavlik for access to their plot of bladder campion. This study was funded by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada—Ducks Unlimited (Developing Innovative Agri-Products for Winter Wheat Initiatives), by the Washington Wheat Commission, and by a grant awarded to LD by the Alberta Crop Industry Development Fund. This is Lethbridge Research Centre Scientific Contribution No. 387-15027.

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  2. Swaroop V. Kher

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    Lloyd M. Dosdall & Swaroop V. Kher

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Hervet, V.A.D., Cárcamo, H.A., Dosdall, L.M. et al. Assessment of potential non-target effects of Tetrastichus julis, a biological control agent of the cereal leaf beetle, Oulema melanopus . BioControl 61, 399–411 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-016-9722-7

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