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233. Derived from: Legner, E. F. 1987. Inheritance of
gregarious and solitary development in Muscidifurax
raptorellus Kogan & Legner
(Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Canad. Entomol. 119(9): 791-808.
{NOTE: All Muscidifurax females regularly
superparasitize their hosts (i.e., deposit more than one egg on a host
pupa). However, in gregarious
sibling species development results in the survival of more than one
individual to the adult stage. In solitary species only a single
individual survives to the adult stage.}.
Yet, altho difficult to detect, occasionally a female parasitic
species may cyclically modify how many eggs are deposited on a host. The following explores the typical
situation where the female parasite lays many eggs on a single host. In honeybees, for example, the female
workers select which male will be mated with a previously selected queen bee,
and there is no apparent direct male role in the process. The present account measures only adult
emergence. Title Page References #1 #2 #3 Page 791 Page 792 Page 793 Page 794 Page 795 Page 796 Page 797 Page 798 Page 799 Page 800 Page 801 Page 802 Page 803 Page 804 Page 805 Table 1, Table 2, Table 3
, Table 4, Table 5, Table 6 Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5, [Addendum: Parasite
cultures obtained from Peru and Chile March-April 1965
Observed behavior involves survival to the adult stage ]. |
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