Spondias mombin as a reservoir of fruit fly parasitoid populations in the Eastern Amazon: an undervalued ecosystem service

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Maria do Socorro Miranda de Sousa¹  Ezequiel de Deus²  Adilson Lopes Lima³  Cristiane Ramos de Jesus³  Salustiano Vilar da Costa Neto⁴  Lailson do Nascimento Lemos⁵  Ana Claudia Mendes Malhado⁶  Richard J. Ladle⁶  Ricardo Adaime¹ 

[1] Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade Tropical, Universidade Federal do Amapá;Instituto Federal do Amapá;Embrapa Amapá;Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá;Universidade Federal do Amapá;Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas;Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto

关键词: Biocontrol;    Braconidae;    Pest;    Taperebá;    Anastrepha obliqua;    Doryctobracon areolatus;    Opius bellus;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.11530

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Fruit flies are economically important pests that infest a wide variety of host trees. The environmental damage caused by traditional pesticide-based control methods has prompted scientists to seek less damaging alternatives such as biological control by native species. Parasitoids, especially Braconidae species, have excellent potential as biological control agents for fruit flies, being both generalists and well distributed geographically. Native fruit trees that support medium or high levels of these parasitoids could therefore play an important role in biological control strategies. A good potential example is Spondias mombin L. in the Brazilian Amazon, which hosts several species of fruit flies and associated parasitoids. Here, we provide a unique synthesis of over nearly two decades of data from the east Amazon, clearly demonstrating the potential of S. mombin to act as a source and reservoir of fruit fly parasitoids. This important ecosystem service (biological control) provided by the parasitoids and supported by S. mombin could be further enhanced through conservation of this plant species in its natural environment.

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