From Behavioural Studies to Field Application: Improving Biological Control Strategies by Integrating Laboratory Results into Field Experiments

Merkel, Katharina; Migani, Valentina; Ekesi, Sunday; Hoffmeister, Thomas S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-43226-7_17

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“…Fopius arisanus (Sonan) is a solitary egg-larval-pupal fruit fly endoparasitoid native to Asia (Gonçalves, Manoukis, & Nava, 2017;Groth, Loeck, Nornberg, Bernardi, & Nava, 2017), but now widely distributed around the globe (Lane et al, 2018). The biology and biological control usage of F. arisanus has been reviewed previously (Rousse et al, 2005), with literature since then covered in recent publications (Gnanvossou et al, 2016;Merkel, Migani, Ekesi, & Hoffmeister, 2016;Vargas et al, 2016;Cai et al, 2020;Nanga Nanga et al, 2019;Lane et al, 2018;Geib et al, 2017;Müller et al, 2019;Cai et al, 2017;Monsia, Megnigbeto, Gnanvossou, & Karlsson, 2019). Because the biology of F. arisanus is reported elsewhere, the following literature is not an exhaustive coverage as it was for the previous sections dealing with D. kraussii and D. tryoni.…”

Section: Fopius Arisanusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From Hawaii, F. arisanus has been widely distributed around the Pacific, causing declines in excess of 75% in the emergence of target taxa (Vargas et al, 2012b;Leblanc, Vargas, & Putoa, 2013). Outside of the Pacific, F. arisanus releases have been carried out in Africa, Indian Ocean nations and South America (Zenil et al, 2004;Gnanvossou et al, 2016;Merkel et al, 2016;Mohamed, Ramadan, & Ekesi, 2016;Monsia et al, 2019).…”

Section: Fopius Arisanusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Opiine parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and biological control of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Australia: Past, present and future

Clarke

Harris

Kay

et al. 2021

Annals of Applied Biology

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Opiine braconids are parasitoids of the immature stages of frugivorous tephritids. The female wasp lays her eggs into the eggs or larvae of the fruit fly host, where the immature wasp develops before emerging as a next-generation adult from the now dead host pupal case. In support of a new generation of Australian fruit fly parasitoid research, this paper comprehensively reviews what is known about the Australian fruit fly infesting opiines. Based on the most recent taxonomic revision 11 fruit fly infesting opiine species are documented to occur in Australia, but we consider as doubtful the record for Diachasmimorpha longicaudata and consider the record for Fopius illusorius to be tentative without further collections. We identify that the systematics and taxonomy of the Australian native fruit fly infesting opiines are in urgent need of further work. The history of fruit fly biological control in Australia is comprehensively reviewed, including the export of native Australian opiines for fruit fly control elsewhere in the world. Australia was actively involved in three major classical biological control programmes against fruit flies from the turn of the 1900s until the mid-1960s. Despite the introduction of 11 opiine species, plus numerous other natural enemies, only Fopius arisanus established in eastern Australia, where in South-east Queensland it can now cause between 30 and 40% mean parasitism. In addition to the exotic F. arisanus, the native species Diachasmimorpha kraussii and Diachasmimorpha tryoni also cause fruit fly parasitism in agriculturally important crops: both species have also been liberated widely outside of Australia for fruit fly control. Other Australian opiines have not been reared from fliesinfesting commercial crops and appear biologically restricted to the fruits and environs of Australian east-coast rainforests. The biology literature for D. tryoni and D. kraussii is comprehensively reviewed, while for F. arisanus, already reviewed elsewhere, key literature only is covered. Forward looking, we consider the potential for inoculative or inundative releases of opiines in areas where they do not currently occur to be good, while conservation biological control may help to increase the impacts of parasitoids in areas where they are already established.

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