Otro
The bizarre male of Spalangia dozieri (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae): adaptations for male phoresy or the result of sexual selection?
Registro en:
Canadian Entomologist. Ottawa: Entomol Soc Canada, v. 141, n. 2, p. 112-125, 2009.
0008-347X
10.4039/n09-007
WOS:000265872700002
WOS000265872700002.pdf
Autor
Gibson, Gary A. P.
Reigada, Carolina
Resumen
Spalangia dozieri Burks is newly recorded as a gregarious parasitoid in the puparia of Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann), C. putoria (Wiedemann). Lucilia eximia (Wiedemann), and L. sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae), and represents the first report of gregariousness in Spalangia Latreille. The previously unknown males of S. dozieri are described and compared with females. Males have highly modified legs and several other sexually dimorphic features that differ front those of other Spalangia species. Most of the Unusual features are hypothesized to be adaptations for grasping and holding and it is suggested that males either are phoretic on adults of their dipteran hosts or, possibly. that males exhibit aggressive or other atypical behaviour toward siblings that is correlated with being gregarious. Barbados, Brazil, Dominica, St. Lucia. St. Vincent. and Trinidad are recorded as new Country distribution records for S. dozieri. Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)