Satoshi Hiroyoshi, Jeffrey A Harvey, Yutaka Nakamatsu, Hisashi Nemoto, Jun Mitsuhashi, Takayuki Mitsunaga, Toshiharu Tanaka
Many parasitoid wasps are highly specialized in nature, attacking only one or a few species of hosts. Host range is often determined by a range of biological and ecological characteristics of the host including diet, growth potential, immunity, and phylogeny. The solitary koinobiont endoparasitoid wasp, Cotesia vestalis , mainly parasitizes diamondback moth (DBM) larvae in the field, although it has been reported that to possess a relatively wide lepidopteran host range. To better understand the biology of C vestalis as a potential biological control of hosts other than the DBM, it is necessary to determine suitability for potential hosts...
2017: International Journal of Insect Science