Anacraga citrinopsis Dyar (Lepidoptera: Dalceridae) em mamoneira no estado de São Paulo Anacraga citrinopsis Dyar (Lepidoptera: Dalceridae) on castor-bean plant in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

• Main Authors: André Luiz Lourenção, Luiz Olavo de Carvalho, Dalmo Henrique de Campos Lasca
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Agronômico de Campinas 1989-01-01
• Series: Bragantia
• Subjects: Anacraga citrinopsis Dyar; mamoneira; Ricinus communis L.; Ceratosmicra argentina Blanchard; Glyptapanteles dalosoma Santis; Isdromas monterai(Costa Lima); castor-bean; Isdromas monterai (Costa Lima)
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87051989000100010

<abstract language="eng">Larvae of A. citrinopsis Dyar were found feeding on leaves of castor-bean plants (Ricinus communis L.) on plantations at Caiuá, Tupi Paulista, Junqueirópolis, Ouro Verde, Marabá Paulista and Cândido Rodrigues, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The larvae feed on the lower surface of leaves, were they form cocoon and pupate later on. Only at Junqueirópolis the infestation was high, but there was a natural decrease in the insect population. The hymenopterous Glyptapanteles dalosoma Santis, 1987 (Braconidae), Ceratosmicra argentina Blanchard, 1942 (Chalcididae) and Isdromas monterai (Costa Lima, 1948) (Ichneumonidae) were reared from larvae; the latter two probably behaved as hyperparasites.