Esraa Ahmad*(1), Ali Ramadan(1), Louai Aslan(2) and Nadia AL- khateeb(3)
(1).Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria.
(2).Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.
(3).Lattakia Center for Rearing Natural Enemies, Department of Biological Control, Directorate of Agriculture, Lattakia, Syria.
(٭Corresponding author : Esraa Ahmad, E.mail esraaahmad21@gmail.com )
Received: 10/12/2022 Accepted: 9/05/2022
Abstract:
Field surveys were conducted in the fields planted with cabbage plants and the pine forests in Lattakia, Jableh and Tartous governorates during the successive years 2019 – 2020 and 2021. Where collected larvae in different instars and pupae of Pieris Brassicae L and Pieris rapae L, different instars larvae with nests of Thaumetopoea pityocampa, and Lymantria dispar L larvae. in addition to collect Vanessa cardui L and Ucnogyna loewii larvae from herbaceous plants scattered on both sides of fields in the identified sites. Samples were preserved and examined at the laboratory Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University. The results showed the presence of the parasitoid Compsilura concinnata (Meigen, 1824) on the Th. pityocampa, and L. dispar L, P. Brassicae , V. cardui L and U.loewii larvae, This research is the first record of the parasitoid on these hosts. as it was found on the pieris rapae L larvae.
Key words: Tachina flies, Parasitism, Lepidoptera, Syria, Syrian coast.
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