| Title: | Chemical Cues From Honeydew and Cuticular Extracts of Trialeurodes Vaporariorum Serve as Kairomones for The Parasitoid Encarsia Formosa |
| Author(s): | Ayelo PM; Yusuf AA; Chailleux A; Mohamed SA; Pirk CWW; Deletre E; |
| Address: | "International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), P.O. Box 30772-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. payelo@icipe.org. Social Insects Research Group, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa. payelo@icipe.org. Social Insects Research Group, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa. CIRAD-UPR HORTSYS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. Biopass2, Cirad-IRD-ISRA-UGB, Dakar, Senegal. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), P.O. Box 30772-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), P.O. Box 30772-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. emilie.deletre@cirad.fr. CIRAD-UPR HORTSYS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. emilie.deletre@cirad.fr" |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10886-022-01354-6 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1573-1561 (Electronic) 0098-0331 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Kairomones are semiochemicals that are emitted by an organism and which mediate interspecific interaction that is of benefit to an organism of another species that receives these chemical substances. Parasitoids find and recognize their hosts through eavesdropping on the kairomones emitted from the by-products or the body of the host. Hemipteran insect pests feed on plant sap and excrete the digested plant materials as honeydew. Honeydew serves as a nutritional food source for parasitoids and a medium for micro-organisms whose activity induces the release of volatiles exploited by parasitoids for host location. The parasitoid Encarsia formosa preferentially parasitizes its host, the greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, on tomato Solanum lycopersicum, but little is known about the chemicals that mediate these interactions. We investigated the olfactory responses of the parasitoid E. formosa to odours from honeydew and nymphs of T. vaporariorum in a Y-tube olfactometer. Arrestment behaviour of the parasitoid to honeydew and nymph extracts, as well as to synthetic hydrocarbons, was also observed in Petri-dish bioassays. We found that T. vaporariorum honeydew volatiles attracted the parasitoid E. formosa but odours from the whitefly nymphs did not. We also found that the parasitoid spent more time searching on areas treated with extracts of honeydew and nymphs than on untreated areas. Gas-chromatography-mass spectrometric analysis revealed that the honeydew volatiles contained compounds such as (Z)-3-hexenol, delta-3-carene, 3-octanone, alpha-phellandrene, methyl salicylate, beta-ocimene, beta-myrcene, and (E)-beta-caryophyllene which are known to be attractive to E. formosa. The cuticular extracts of the nymphs predominantly contained alkanes, alkenes, and esters. Among the alkanes, synthetic nonacosane arrested the parasitoid. Our findings are discussed in relation to how the parasitoid E. formosa uses these chemicals to locate its host, T. vaporariorum" |
| Keywords: | Alkanes Animals Cues *Hemiptera Host-Parasite Interactions *Hymenoptera *Solanum lycopersicum Nymph Pheromones Plant Extracts Taiwan *Wasps/physiology Biological control Cuticular hydrocarbons Host-parasitoid interactions Nonacosane Olfactometer Parasitoi; |
| Notes: | "MedlineAyelo, Pascal Mahukpe Yusuf, Abdullahi A Chailleux, Anais Mohamed, Samira A Pirk, Christian W W Deletre, Emilie eng 2022/03/09 J Chem Ecol. 2022 Apr; 48(4):370-383. doi: 10.1007/s10886-022-01354-6. Epub 2022 Mar 7" |
