The painted lady, Vanessa cardui L., is known to feed from many plants, including some of agricultural importance (i.e., mustard, canola, brassica crops, among others). However, there is no report on feeding by this polyphagous lepidopteran on bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). In 2017, this lepidopteran was extraordinarilly abundant in a bean plot at Chihuahua, México. The insect damaged 100% of plants in the plot. Lespesia melalophae (Diptera: Tachinidae) was the main parasitoid of V. cardui. Parasitism rates were 30.27, 1.43, and 0.48% for L. melalophae, Meteorus sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), and Campoletis sp. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), respectively. There are no previous reports of parasitism by L. melalophae on V. cardui.
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25 September 2020
First Record of Feeding by Vanessa cardui Caterpillars on Bean Plants and Their Parasitism by Lespesia melalophae
María Fernanda-Ruiz-Cisneros,
José De Jesús Ornelas-Paz,
Magali Ordóñez-García,
Juan Carlos Bustillos-Rodríguez,
Daniel Alonso Pérez-Corral,
David Ignacio Berlanga-Reyes,
Claudio Rios-Velasco
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Southwestern Entomologist
Vol. 45 • No. 3
September 2020
Vol. 45 • No. 3
September 2020