Potential fecundity of the bamboo gall maker,Aiolomorphus rhopaloides (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae), and its inquiline,Diomorus aiolomorphi (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), in relation to gall size and body size |
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Authors: | Ei’ichi Shibata |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratory of Forest Protection, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, 464-8601 Nagoya, Japan |
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Abstract: | I examined the adult potential fecundity of the bamboo gall maker,Aiolomorphus rhopaloides Walker (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae), and its inquiline,Diomorus aiolomorphi Kamijo (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) by dissection just after emergence, and at death after rearing. Emerging females ofA. rhopaloides hadca. 80 mature eggs in their ovaries. The number of eggs at emergence and after death at rearing was not significantly different.
However, emerging females ofD. aiolomorphi had no eggs in their ovaries but hadca 20 eggs at death after rearing. These results suggest thatA. rhopaloides is pro-ovigenic andD. aiolomorphi is synovigenic. Female body sizes of both species were positively correlated with the size of galls from which each emerged.
Number of eggs in each species was also correlated with female body size, suggesting that gall size might be a good predictor
of potential fecundity.
This study was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for scientific Research (No. 11460068) from the Ministry of Education,
Science, Sports, and Culture, Japan. |
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Keywords: | Aiolomorphus rhopaloides bamboo gall maker Diomorus aiolomorphi gall size potential fecundity |
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