Sôbre os inimigos naturais da lagarta das palmáceas Brassolis sophorae sophorae (L.) (Lep., Brassolidae)

Autores

  • Luiz Gonzaga E. Lordello Universidade de São Paulo; Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0071-12761952000100002

Resumo

Brassolis sophorae (L.) (Lep., Brassolidae) is an old and important pest of some Brazilian Palmae, among which Cocos nucifera L. and Copemicia cerifera Mart, are the most valuable economically. Eggs are attacked by Anastatus reduvii (Howard) (Eupel-midae) and Telenomus sp. and Telenomus nigrocoxdlis Ashmead (Scelionidae), the larvae being destroyed by Withemia pinguis (F.) (Tachinidae). Six other insects devellop inside the pupae : Xanthozona melanopyga (Wiedmann) and Belvosia sp. (Tachinidae) and the Hymenoptera Brachymeria annulata (F.), B. incerta (Cres-son), Spilochalcis nigrifrons Cameron and S. morleyi Ashmead (Chalcicidae), the last of them being principally treated in this paper. A species of Sarcophagidae (Sarcophaga lambens Wiedmann) was also noted, some flies being gotten from a single pupa. In Piracicaba (State of S. Paulo, Brasil), according to the Author's observations, B. sophorae principal enemy is X. melanopyga, to which our attention has to be directed in a biological fight against the mentioned Brassolidae. The reported Telenomus sp. is also very harmful to B. sophorae eggs. In the whole zone of its distribution, the hosts of B. sophorae caterpillars are Palmae plants, appearing sporadically feeding on banana and sugar cane leaves.

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Publicado

1951-12-30

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Lordello, L. G. E. (1951). Sôbre os inimigos naturais da lagarta das palmáceas Brassolis sophorae sophorae (L.) (Lep., Brassolidae). Anais Da Escola Superior De Agricultura Luiz De Queiroz, 9, 23-30. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0071-12761952000100002