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Intrinsic Interspecific Competition Between Telenomus podisi and Trissolcus teretis (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)

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The competition between Telenomus podisi Ashmead and Trissolcus teretis (Johnson) parasitizing eggs of Diceraeus melacanthus (Dallas) and Euschistus heros (Fabricius) was studied in three different laboratory bioassays to gather knowledge in order to improve stink bug management and to strengthen the preservation of naturally occurring parasitoid species. The impact of parasitoid sequence and time intervals (4 to 192 h) between parasitoid species was evaluated. Competition of Te. podisi and Tr. teretis for the same host favored the parasitoid encountering the egg host first, as it usually outcompetes the second parasitoid. We conclude that it is unwarranted in a short-term goal to release both species together in augmentative biological control programs since the repeated release of Te. podisi led to higher parasitism than any other studied variation of parasitoid sequence. However, simultaneous release of multiple species could be important to help the preservation of the diversity of scelionids in the agroecosystem, a hypothesis that needs to be further investigated in future research.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks are extended to Dagmar Frish for English editing the manuscript and to Dr Valmir Antônio Costa (Instituto Biológico de Campinas) for parasitoid identification (voucher specimen from IBCBE 003272 to IBCBE 003425 were deposited at the “Coleção de Insetos Entomófagos Oscar Monte,” Instituto Biológico de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil).

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The authors thank Embrapa Soja, the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for their financial support (project number 402797/2016-7) and fellowship (project number 302645/2018-7).

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  1. Univ Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

    Ana Paula de Queiroz

  2. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária – Embrapa Soja, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

    Adeney de Freitas Bueno

  3. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária – Embrapa Trigo, Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Antônio Ricardo Panizzi

  4. Instituto Agronômico do Paraná – IAPAR, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

    Bruna Magda Favetti

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Ana Paula de Queiroz, Adeney de Freitas Bueno, and Antônio Ricardo Panizzi: contributed to the study design and wrote the paper. Ana Paula de Queiroz: conducted the sampling. Adeney de Freitas Bueno and Antônio Ricardo Panizzi: contributed reagents/material/analysis tools. Ana Paula de Queiroz, Bruna Magda Favetti: conducted the experiments. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.

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de Queiroz, A.P., Bueno, A.d.F., Panizzi, A.R. et al. Intrinsic Interspecific Competition Between Telenomus podisi and Trissolcus teretis (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Neotrop Entomol 50, 453–461 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-021-00851-9

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