Flutuação populacional da broca-da-coroa-foliar Eupalamides cyparissias (Lepidoptera: Castiniidae) em plantios de dendê (Elaeis guineensis) no estado do Pará

• Autor(a) principal: Bernardino, Aline Sales
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4013
• topic: Entomologia agrícola; Dendê; Flutuação populacional; Coco; Castnia daedalus; Região Amazônica; Agricultural entomology; Paln oil; Population fluctuation; Coconut; Castnia daedalus; Amazonian region; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOSSANIDADE::ENTOMOLOGIA AGRICOLA

Eupalamides cyparissias (Fabricius, 1776) (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) which synonymies are Castnia daedalus, Cyparissius daedalus, Eupalamides daedalus, Lapaeumides daedalus and Cyparissius daedalus is one of the most important insect pest in oil palm culture. This species causes severe damage to palm oil and coconut production in the State of Pará, Brazil and it is characterized by a wing span from 17 to 21 cm and by damage to coconut and palm oil plantations besides to other native palm trees of the Amazonian region. The strategies of controlling this pest have low efficiency and their generations overlap during the year. Therefore, the objective was to study the population fluctuation of E. cyparissias based on data of caterpillars, pupae and adults of E. cyparissias collected from September 2002 to January 2007. Data on capture of this insect were obtained on plantations of oil palm of the Agroindustrial Complex of Agropalma in the municipalities of Thailand, Pará State distant 80 Km from the capital Belém. Climate data were obtained in meteorological stations of this company. Four independent analyses were done to verify the influence of environmental factors and the probability of occurrence/survival of caterpillars (L1, L2 and L3), pupae and adults of E. cyparissias. The relative humidity, rainfall, thermal amplitude and mean temperature were the variables that affected the occurrence of the different stages of E. cyparissias. These initial studies give an idea of the period of occurrence of the different stages of this insect, but additional ones are necessary to determine population increase and reduction of this species in the field.