Biological Control of the Cassava Hornworm Erinnyis ello (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

1992 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 506 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Bellotti ◽  
B. Arias V. ◽  
O. L. Guzman
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Cassava Hornworm ◽  
Erinnyis Ello

scholarly journals Egg parasitoids of the cassava hornworm (Erinnyis spp.) associated to cassava in the Pará State, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. e932
Author(s):  
Aloyséia Cristina da Silva Noronha ◽  
Dimison Garcia Blanco ◽  
Valmir Antonio Costa ◽  
Ranyse Barbosa Querino ◽  
Dênmora Gomes de Araújo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Adult Stage ◽  
Egg Parasitoid ◽  
Germplasm Bank ◽  
Parasitoid Species ◽  
Manihot Esculenta Crantz ◽  
The City ◽  
Cassava Hornworm ◽  
Erinnyis Ello

The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence and identify the egg-parasitoid species of the cassava hornworm (Erinnyis spp.) in cassava plants (Manihot esculenta Crantz - Euphorbiaceae), facilitating their usage in the biological control as a management strategy in the Pará State. During February to December of 2016, cassava hornworm eggs were collected in the Cassava Germplasm Bank area of the Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, located at the city of Belém, State of Pará. In the laboratory, eggs were separated in viable and parasitized and were daily observed until the hatching of the caterpillars and emergence of the parasitoids. The caterpillars were reared until reaching the adult stage and the sex determined at the pupae stage. A total of 482 eggs were collected, with a higher occurrence at March, and 244 caterpillars were obtained with sex ratio of 0.52 with 191 specimens reaching adult stage. Among these adults, 95.81% were Erinnyis ello (Linnaeus) and 4.19% Erinnyis alope (Drury). A total of 1,087 parasitoids were obtained from 131 eggs and belong to four Hymenoptera families: Platygastridae (Telenomus dilophonotae Cameron), Eulophidae (Chrysonotomyia sp. aff. serjaniae), Trichogrammatidae (Trichogramma marandobai Brun, Moraes & Soares) and Encyrtidae (Ooencyrtus sp.). The Erinnyis spp. eggs were mostly parasitized by T. dilophonotae, which was classified along with T. marandobai as constant. The occurrence of these natural enemies highlights the potential for natural biological control against Erinnyis spp.

Consumption of food and spatial organization of digestion in the cassava hornworm, Erinnyis ello

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 707-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Custódio D. Santos ◽  
Clélia Ferreira ◽  
Walter R. Terra
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Cassava Hornworm ◽  
Erinnyis Ello

scholarly journals A novel cypovirus found in a betabaculovirus co-infection context contains a poxvirus immune nuclease (poxin)-related gene

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (6) ◽  
pp. 667-675
Author(s):  
Leonardo A. da Silva ◽  
Daniel M. P. Ardisson-Araújo ◽  
Brenda R. de Camargo ◽  
Marlinda Lobo de Souza ◽  
Bergmann M. Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Rubber Tree ◽  
Hypothetical Protein ◽  
Amino Acid Identity ◽  
Acid Extraction ◽  
Sequencing Analysis ◽  
Illumina Deep Sequencing ◽  
Important Pest ◽  
Cassava Hornworm ◽  
Erinnyis Ello

The cassava hornworm Erinnyis ello ello (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) is an important pest in Brazil. This insect feeds on host plants of several species, especially Manihot esculenta (cassava) and Hevia brasiliensis (rubber tree). Cassava hornworm outbreaks are quite common in Brazil and can cause great impact over crop production. Granulare and polyhedral-shaped occlusion bodies (OBs) were observed in extracts of dead E. ello larvae from rubber-tree plantations by light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), suggesting a mixed infection. The polyhedral-shaped OB surface revealed indentations that resemble those found in cypovirus polyhedra. After OB nucleic acid extraction followed by cDNA production and Illumina deep-sequencing analysis, the results confirmed for the presence of a putative novel cypovirus that carries ten segments and also a betabaculovirus (Erinnyis ello granulovirus, ErelGV). Phylogenetic analysis of the predicted segment 1-enconded RdRP showed that the new cypovirus isolate is closely related to a member of species Cypovirus 2, which was isolated from Inachis io (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Therefore, we named this new isolate Erinnyis ello cypovirus 2 (ErelCPV-2). Genome in silico analyses showed that ErelCPV-2 segment 8 (S8) has a predicted amino acid identity of 35.82 % to a hypothetical protein of betabaculoviruses. This putative protein has a cGAMP-specific nuclease domain related to the poxvirus immune nucleases (poxins) from the 2′,3′-cGAMP-degrading enzyme family.

The larval midgut of the cassava hornworm (Erinnyis ello)

1984 ◽  
Vol 237 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cust�dioD. Santos ◽  
AlbertoF. Ribeiro ◽  
Cl�lia Ferreira ◽  
WalterR. Terra
Keyword(s):  
Larval Midgut ◽  
Cassava Hornworm ◽  
Erinnyis Ello

scholarly journals Genome sequence of Erinnyis ello granulovirus (ErelGV), a natural cassava hornworm pesticide and the first sequenced sphingid-infecting betabaculovirus

BMC Genomics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Mendes Ardisson-Araújo ◽  
Fernando de Melo ◽  
Miguel Andrade ◽  
William Sihler ◽  
Sonia Báo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genome Sequence ◽  
Cassava Hornworm ◽  
Erinnyis Ello

New species, notes and new records of Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) in Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4232 (1) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
RANYSE B. QUERINO ◽  
JACI V. MENDES ◽  
VALMIR A. COSTA ◽  
ROBERTO A. ZUCCHI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Cassava Hornworm ◽  
Erinnyis Ello ◽  
Host Associations

Two new species of Trichogramma are described: Trichogramma piracicabense sp. nov. and T. valmiri sp. nov. Additionally, T. manicobai from eggs of the cassava hornworm Erinnyis ello is redescribed, and new records on the distribution and host associations of species of Trichogramma from Brazil are presented. 

Characterization of a Granulovirus from the Cassava Hornworm (Erinnyis ello: Sphingidae)

2000 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey M. Finnerty ◽  
Guoxun Li ◽  
Robert R. Granados
Keyword(s):  
Cassava Hornworm ◽  
Erinnyis Ello

Electron investigations of rhabdovirus-like particles in mexican bean beetles and crickets

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-379
Author(s):  
J. R. Adams ◽  
G. J Tompkins ◽  
A. M. Heimpel ◽  
E. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Acheta Domesticus ◽  
Epilachna Varivestis ◽  
House Cricket ◽  
Similar Morphology ◽  
Bean Beetle

As part of a continual search for potential pathogens of insects for use in biological control or on an integrated pest management program, two bacilliform virus-like particles (VLP) of similar morphology have been found in the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Mulsant and the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L. ).Tissues of diseased larvae and adults of E. varivestis and all developmental stages of A. domesticus were fixed according to procedures previously described. While the bean beetles displayed no external symptoms, the diseased crickets displayed a twitching and shaking of the metathoracic legs and a lowered rate of activity.Examinations of larvae and adult Mexican bean beetles collected in the field in 1976 and 1977 in Maryland and field collected specimens brought into the lab in the fall and reared through several generations revealed that specimens from each collection contained vesicles in the cytoplasm of the midgut filled with hundreds of these VLP's which were enveloped and measured approximately 16-25 nm x 55-110 nm, the shorter VLP's generally having the greater width (Fig. 1).

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