2009
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-009-9059-6
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Multiple host use by a sap-sucking membracid: population consequences of nymphal development on primary and secondary host plant species

Abstract: Aconophora compressa is a gregarious, sapsucking insect that uses multiple host plant species. Nymphal host plant species (and variety) significantly affected nymphal survival, nymphal development rate and the subsequent size and fecundity of adults, with fiddlewood (Citharexylum spinosum) being significantly best in all respects. Nymphs that developed on a relatively poor host (Duranta erecta var ''geisha girl'') and which were moved to fiddlewood as adults laid significantly fewer eggs (mean ± SE = 836 ± 130… Show more

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“…The categorisations derived here correlate well with those derived from nymphal rearing experiments across the host plants sampled in Australia (Manners and Walter, 2009) and also from adult performance tests on these plants (Manners et al, 2010). The results presented here also demonstrate that the host plant associations of A. compressa are consistent across geographic regions sampled, in terms of which plant species are used as primary, secondary or incidental hosts (Figs.…”
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“…The categorisations derived here correlate well with those derived from nymphal rearing experiments across the host plants sampled in Australia (Manners and Walter, 2009) and also from adult performance tests on these plants (Manners et al, 2010). The results presented here also demonstrate that the host plant associations of A. compressa are consistent across geographic regions sampled, in terms of which plant species are used as primary, secondary or incidental hosts (Figs.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 77%
“…In general, the results presented here provide further support that fiddlewood is the primary host plant of A. compressa in Australia and that all other hosts, including lantana, are secondary or incidental hosts (Manners and Walter, 2009;Manners et al, 2010). A. compressa has been recorded on particular lantana plants for periods of about 26 weeks (double that recorded in this study - Table 2) and at moderately high levels (about three to five times that recorded in this study) in 2009 and 2010, at the Alan Fletcher Research Station, Sherwood, Brisbane, Australia.…”
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