Biology of the tomato leafminer Liriomyza sativae (Diptero: Agromyzidae)

https://doi.org/10.25100/socolen.v20i4.10044

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Published: Dec 31, 1994
Issue: Vol. 20 No. 4 (1994)
Section Agriculture / Research paper

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JORGE SALAS Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias del Estado Lara
ALEXIS PARRA Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias del Estado Lara
Abstract

Biological aspects of the tomato leafminer Liriomyza sativae Blanchard (Diptera: Agromyzidae) were studied under laboratory conditions (T=26°C; R.H=67%) during the first semester of 1992. The mean duration of the different developmental stages was: egg 3.5 days; larva 7.0 days; prepupa 4.5 hours and pupa 8.0 days. The mean duration of the life cycle from egg to adult was 18.5 days. Adults males and females fed with 5% honey-water solution lasted 6.1 and 10.0 days, respectively. Preoviposition and oviposition periods were 1.0 and 7.5 days. Fecundity was 24.4 eggs/female, whereas fertility was 59%. Three larval in-stars were registered using Dyar's law and based on the size of the mouth hooks. Sex ra­tio was 1 male: 1.77 female.

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SALAS, J., & PARRA, A. (1994). Biology of the tomato leafminer Liriomyza sativae (Diptero: Agromyzidae). Revista Colombiana De Entomología, 20(4), 267–270. https://doi.org/10.25100/socolen.v20i4.10044

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