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Local variability in the life cycle of the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (Homoptera: Aphididae) in western France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

J. C. Simon ,
R. L. Blackman  and
J. F. Le Gallic
J. C. Simon*
Affiliation:
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire de Recherches de la Chaire de Zoologie de l'ENSAR, France
R. L. Blackman
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
J. F. Le Gallic
Affiliation:
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire de Recherches de la Chaire de Zoologie de l'ENSAR, France
*
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire de Recherches de la Chaire de Zoologie de l'ENSAR, F35650 Le Rheu, France.
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Abstract

To study life cycle variability in Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus), the responses to short days (L:D 10:14) of 70 clones were tested at two temperatures (10°C and 15°C) in the laboratory. Three clones originating from spring populations on the primary host, bird cherry (Prunus padus), were holocyclic, producing gynoparae and then males in the second generation under experimental conditions. Of the other clones, all originating from Gramineae, 78.5% were anholocyclic and 21.5% androcyclic (male-producing) at 15°C, but at 10°C only 12.7% were anholocyclic, 82.6% were androcyclic, and 4.7% showed an ‘intermediate’ response (i.e., some of the alate females produced both sexual and parthe-nogenetic offspring). There was considerable interclonal and inter-individual variation in the numbers of males produced by androcyclic clones. These results are discussed in relation to field studies on R. padi in Britanny, which indicate that 1. primary hosts are rather rare, but nevertheless commonly develop spring infestations; 2. anholocyclic genotypes are regularly decimated every few years by severe winters. It appears that the preponderance of androcyclic clones is important for the maintenance of life cycle variability.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 315 - 322
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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