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Shogo Kikuta
Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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EXTENT OF USE OF THE NOVEL FABACEOUS HOST CENTROSEMA MOLLE BY HENOSEPILACHNA VIGINTIOCTOPUNCTATA (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE) IN NUSA TENGGARA, INDONESIA Naoyuki Fujiyama; Hideki Ueno; Sih Kahono; Sri Hartini; Kei W. Matsubayashi; Shogo Kikuta; Haruo Katakura
TREUBIA Vol 40 (2013): Vol. 40, December 2013
Publisher : Research Center for Biology

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14203/treubia.v40i0.185

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The herbivorous ladybird beetle Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata depends primarily on solanaceous plants. The utilisation of a novel fabaceous host, centro (Centrosema molle), by this beetle has been reported from several regions in Southeastern Asia, but details of the distribution and feeding habits of H. vigintioctopunctata populations on centro are largely unknown. Our study aimed to gather basic information on the utilisation of centro by H. vigintioctopunctata in the Nusa Tenggara region of southeastern Indonesia. Field surveys indicated that H. vigintioctopunctata did not yet utilize centro in the wild in this region. However, in feeding-choice experiments in the laboratory, all beetle populations tested from this region had some potential to utilize centro, i.e., showed some feeding acceptance of this plant. Based on these results, we discuss the current status of the Nusa Tenggara H. vigintioctopunctata populations in using centro as a host.
POTENTIAL ABILITY OF THE SOLANUM-FEEDING LADYBIRD BEETLE HENOSEPILACHNA DIFFINIS (COLEOPTERA; COCCINELLIDAE) TO USE THE INTRODUCED FABACEOUS PLANT CENTROSEMA MOLLE Shogo Kikuta; Naoyuki Fujiyama; Sih Kahono; Norio Kobayashi; Sri Hartini; Haruo Katakura
TREUBIA Vol 40 (2013): Vol. 40, December 2013
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14203/treubia.v40i0.187

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Host specificity has been a major factor in generating the tremendous diversity of phytophagous arthropods. Studies of adaptation to introduced or invasive plant species provide an opportunity to investigate incipient evolutionary changes in host specificity. We investigated the cryptic ability of the Asian tropical herbivorous ladybird beetle Henosepilachna diffinis to feed on the fabaceous weed "centro", Centrosema molle, which was introduced to Southeast Asia about 200 years ago. In laboratory choice tests using this plant and the normal host plant, Solanum torvum, adults preferred S. torvum to centro, but over half the beetles tested ate leaves of both plants. Furthermore, most first-instar larvae accepted centro during a rearing experiment, and a few of them grew to the third-instar stage, though none reached the final (fourth) instar. Henosepilachna diffinis likely acquired this incomplete acceptability of centro without any direct host-grazer interaction with centro, probably before this weed was introduced to Southeast Asia. Our results further suggest that another Henosepilachna species, H. vigintioctopunctata, might similarly have already acquired an incomplete ability to use centro when this beetle encountered it for the first time, and this triggered a subsequent host-range expansion from solanaceous plants to include centro in various parts of Southeast Asia.
Co-Authors Haruo Katakura Haruo Katakura Hideki Ueno Kei W. Matsubayashi Naoyuki Fujiyama Naoyuki Fujiyama Norio Kobayashi Sih Kahono Sri Hartini Sri Hartini