New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research abstracts
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The life history of the capitulum weevil, Larinus
latus (Herbst) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
Levent Gültekin
Şaban Güçlü
Atatürk Üniversitesi
Ziraat Fakültesi
Bitki Koruma Bölümü
25240, Erzurum
Turkey
email: sguclu@atauni.edu.tr
Olga N. Nikulina
A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia
Abstract The biology of Larinus latus (Herbst)
(Coleoptera, Curculionidae), a weevil associated to one of the most serious
pasture weeds in Turkey, Onopordum bracteatum, has been studied in
Erzurum during 1999-2001. Adults migrated to lowlands at the beginning of
June and fed on the leaves, capitula, and pollen of O. bracteatum.
Females laid eggs on bracts, in the florets, and in stems of capitula. The
larvae hatched at the beginning of July and fed on the base of capitula,
florets, and seed. Mature larvae produced pupal cells in the margins of capitula
and then pupated after the third week of July. The new generation of adults
emerged from pupae from early August to the beginning of September, and 3-5
days after emergence migrated to higher altitudes approximately 2400 m for
overwintering. The species completed one generation per year in Erzurum conditions.
Keywords Onopordum bracteatum; Larinus latus;
life history
A02047; Received 17 July 2002; accepted 26 February 2003; online publication
date 9 September 2003
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2003, Vol. 46: 271-274
0028-8233/03/4603-0271 $7.00/0 © The Royal Society of New Zealand
2003
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