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Confirmation by DNA analysis that Contarinia maculipennis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) is a polyphagous pest of orchids and other unrelated cultivated plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

N. Uechi ,
M. Tokuda ,
J. Yukawa ,
F. Kawamura ,
K.K. Teramoto  and
K.M. Harris
N. Uechi*
Affiliation:
Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812–8581, Japan
M. Tokuda
Affiliation:
Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812–8581, Japan
J. Yukawa
Affiliation:
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
F. Kawamura
Affiliation:
Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Experiment Station, Naha 903-0814, Japan
K.K. Teramoto
Affiliation:
Biocontrol Section, Plant Pest Control Branch, Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814, USA
K.M. Harris
Affiliation:
81 Linden Way, Ripley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6LP, UK
*
*Fax: +81 (092) 642 2839 E-mail: uechi@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

The cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene in mitochondrial DNA of 53 larvae of Contarinia maculipennis Felt from flower buds of various host plants, collected from Hawaii, Japan and Thailand was analysed. Monophyly of the clade including C. maculipennis from Hawaii, Thailand and Japan was supported. There was no sequential variation within the specimens from Hawaii and Japan, which differed from one another by 6 bp (1.37%). Three haplotypes were recognized in specimens from Thailand but differences from Hawaiian and Japanese specimens were small. Overall, there were no differences in the 146 deduced amino acid residues. It is therefore concluded that C. maculipennis is a polyphagous species that can develop on plant hosts representing at least seven botanical families. This pest of Dendrobium flower buds in glasshouses is considered to have entered Hawaii, Florida and Japan from Southeast Asia, and was recently intercepted in the Netherlands. Infestations have established and spread in orchid glasshouses, causing concern about the possibility of more extensive damage to orchids and to crops, such as bitter gourd, grown in close proximity to orchid glasshouses in Japan. The potential usefulness of DNA analysis in determining host plant ranges of morphologically identical cecidomyiid species that are currently identified solely on differences of host plant is emphasized.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 93 , Issue 6 , December 2003 , pp. 545 - 551
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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