Original title: Good parasitic wasps gone bad: a short review of two stories of the oceanic and habitat islands
Authors: Lozan, Aurel ; Spitzer, Karel ; Jaroš, Josef
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: SIEEC 21. Symposium Internationale Entomofaunisticum Europae Centralis, České Budějovice (CZ), 2009-06-28 / 2009-07-03
Year: 2009
Language: eng
Abstract: Braconid parasitoid Cotesia glomerata, which was accidentally introduced into Canary Islands became real threat to the Canary Island Large White butterfly (Pieris cheiranthi). The multiple confirmation of the origin of the introduced parasitoid (morphology, DNA, ecology) suggests that these opportunistic parasitoids might be a serious danger to native isolated fauna. Such model relationships can be found in isolated paleorefugial habitats of the central European peat bogs, which are historical habitat islands of unique local taxa. A recent discovery of some opportunistic parasitoids attacking tyrphobiontic Lepidoptera in several isolated bogs of South Bohemia suggest these wasps might invade isolated habitats and cause serious population destruction of paleorefugial hosts.
Keywords: Lepidoptera; oceanic and habitat islands; peat bogs
Project no.: CEZ:AV0Z50070508 (CEP)
Host item entry: Communications and Abstracts, ISBN 978-80-7394-167-3

Institution: Biology Centre AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0005350

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