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Changes in a Moth Community Mediated by Biological Control of the Dominant Species

 

作者: Ilse H. Schreiner,   Donald M. Nafus,  

 

期刊: Environmental Entomology  (OUP Available online 1992)
卷期: Volume 21, issue 3  

页码: 664-668

 

ISSN:0046-225X

 

年代: 1992

 

DOI:10.1093/ee/21.3.664

 

出版商: Oxford University Press

 

关键词: Insecta;competition;biological control;keystone predators

 

数据来源: OUP

 

摘要:

After biological control of the mango shoot caterpillar,Penicillaria jocosatrixGuenée (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), on Guam, populations of four other species of Lepidoptera using mango increased. These included three species of Geometridae—the widespreadAnisodes illepidariaGuenée,Thalassodessp., and Chloroclystis sp.—and the noctuidNanaguna breviusculaWalker.Thalassodessp.,Chloroclystissp., andN. breviusculawere most commonly found on mango inflorescences, and probably became more abundant as a result of an increase in mango flowers.A. illepidariacaterpillars, which eat leaves and flowers, increased l0-fold after suppression ofP. jocosatrix. Comparison of its larval biology with the mango shoot caterpillar showed thatA. illepidariapreferred slightly older, developing leaves. Survival ofA. illepidariawas low on very young leaves, which were highly suitable forP. jocosatrix. Introduced biological control agents acted as keystone predators, preventing the mango shoot caterpillar from preempting mango as a resource for the other Lepidoptera species.

 

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