HOST-PLANT PREFERENCES OF ACANTHOSCELIDES-AUREOLUS (HORN) (COLEOPTERA, BRUCHIDAE)

Authors
OWEN WR
Citation
Wr. Owen, HOST-PLANT PREFERENCES OF ACANTHOSCELIDES-AUREOLUS (HORN) (COLEOPTERA, BRUCHIDAE), The Pan-Pacific entomologist, 69(1), 1993, pp. 41-50
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
The Pan-Pacific entomologist → ACNP
ISSN journal
00310603
Volume
69
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
41 - 50
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-0603(1993)69:1<41:HPOA((>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The discrimination of Acanthoscelides aureolus Horn (Coleoptera: Bruch idae) among individuals of its host plants, Astragalus kentrophyta var . implexus (Fabaceae), was investigated using a path analytical model that included seven demographic variables. Seed number proved to be th e plant trait that contributed most to the rate bruchid use among host individuals. Seed number also exerted an important indirect effect on the correlations between the rate of bruchid use and the other variab les in this analysis.