Host plant specificity, oviposition behaviour and egg parasitism in some leafhoppers of the genus Eupteryx (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Ecological Entomology
- Vol. 5 (1) , 79-85
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1980.tb01125.x
Abstract
Three species of Eupteryx, E.aurata, E.cyclops and E.urticae are regularly found on stinging nettles in South Wales. E.aurata host alternates between nettles in spring and autumn, and Heraclewn, Eupatorium and Mentha species in summer. E.cyclops and E.urticae attack only nettles. All species are host specific during oviposition and show preferences to lay eggs in discrete plant regions. A Mymarid egg parasite of the genus Anagrus was reared more commonly from eggs laid in nettles than from eggs laid in alternative hosts.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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