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Suitability of food plants for Oxycarenus lavaterae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), a mediterranean bug invasive in Central and South-East Europe
- 1.0356195 - BC 2011 RIV BG eng J - Journal Article
Kalushkov, P. - Nedvěd, Oldřich
Suitability of food plants for Oxycarenus lavaterae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), a mediterranean bug invasive in Central and South-East Europe.
COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE BULGARE DES SCIENCES. Roč. 63, č. 2 (2010), s. 271-276. ISSN 1310-1331
Grant - others:Bulgarian National Science Fund, Ministry of Education and Science(BG) B-1508
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50070508
Keywords : Oxycarenus lavaterae * host plant specificity * fecundity
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Impact factor: 0.219, year: 2010
The Mediterranean linden bug Oxycarenus lavaterae, invading recently central European countries, was found in Bulgaria for the rst time in 1998. Seeds of the lime tree Tilia cordata, of Hibiscus syriacus and of the sun ower Helianthus annuus enabled completion of the whole life cycle. The developmental time from eggs to adults lasted 30-31 days at 25C and survival was over 50% on these seeds. Broken seeds from the lime trees T. tomentosa, T. platyphyllos and winter wheat were less suitable food, whole seeds of T. tomentosa, T. platyphyllos and wheat were unsuitable. Fecundity of females reared on seeds of H. syriacus and T. cordata was 189 eggs and 230 eggs, respectively.
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