Especificidad forética de Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Acari: Macrochelidae)

Authors

  • Alejandra Perotti Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3259, Pico 3, 7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina
  • Marcelo J. A. Brasesco Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3259, Pico 3, 7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina

Abstract

Macrocheles muscaedomesticae is an important predator mite offlies (Muscidae and Fanniidae) associated with poultry manure and it is phonetic on these flies. During the active season of the flies we sampled the fly fauna of a poultry farm in the southeast of Buenos Aires province, to document the prevalence of plioretic mites on different species of flies in their natural habitat. Under controlled conditions in the laboratory, we used a Y-olfatometer to assess the level of host specificity of the mites, by exposing them to chemical gradients produced by living flies of the principal phonetic hosts of the mites: the Musca domestica, Fanniia canicularis and Drosophila simulans. Results suggest that M. muscaedomesticae has a stronger phonetic prefence for M. domestica and F. canicularis than for D. simulans.

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1996-06-01

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Perotti, A., & Brasesco, M. J. A. (1996). Especificidad forética de Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Acari: Macrochelidae). Ecología Austral, 6(1), 003–008. Retrieved from https://ojs.ecologiaaustral.com.ar/index.php/Ecologia_Austral/article/view/1661

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