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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Effect of temperature on the fecundity (means ± S.E.) of Citrostichus phyllocnistoides and Cirrospilus ingenuus reared on Phyllocnistis citrella

From: Temperature-dependent effects on some biological aspects of two ectoparasitoids of Phyllocnistis citrella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)

Temperature

n

Fecundity

C. phyllocnistoides

C. ingenuus

20 °C

5

15.8 ± 0.867 a

14.2 ± 0.438 b

25 °C

5

17.0 ± 0.938 a

17.6 ± 0.606 a

30 °C

5

10.6 ± 0.536 b

9.4 ± 0.456 c

  1. Within each column, means sharing the same letters are not significantly different (α = 0.05; LSD test), n = number of female parasitoids
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