ORCID Profile
0000-0001-7779-787X
Current Organisations
CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories
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CSIRO
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Prince 2 project management
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Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Date: 11-09-2023
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Date: 20-07-2012
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 11-2016
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 23-06-2020
Abstract: The Queensland fruit fly (Bactrocera tryoni Q-fly) is an Australian endemic horticultural pest species, which has caused enormous economic losses. It has the potential to expand its range to currently Q-fly-free areas and poses a serious threat to the Australian horticultural industry. A large number of studies have investigated the correlation between environmental factors and Q-fly development, reproduction, and expansion. However, it is still not clear how Q-fly morphological traits vary with the environment. Our study focused on three morphological traits (body size, wing shape, and fluctuating asymmetry) in Q-fly s les collected from 1955 to 1965. We assessed how these traits vary by sex, and in response to latitude, environmental variables, and geographic distance. First, we found sexual dimorphism in body size and wing shape, but not in fluctuating asymmetry. Females had a larger body size but shorter and wider wings than males, which may be due to reproductive and/or locomotion differences between females and males. Secondly, the body size of Q-flies varied with latitude, which conforms to Bergmann’s rule. Finally, we found Q-fly wing shape was more closely related to temperature rather than aridity, and low temperature and high aridity may lead to high asymmetry in Q-fly populations.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-09-2012
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Date: 08-0001
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3846.2.6
Abstract: Two closely related new species of Aprostocetus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae) are described as fortuitous parasitoids of invasive gall inducers in two other genera of Tetrastichinae, Leptocybe Fisher & LaSalle and Quadrastichus Girault. Aprostocetus causalis La Salle & Wu is a parasitoid of Leptocybe invasa Fisher & La Salle on Eucalyptus spp. (Myrtaceae) in China and Thailand, and A. felix La Salle, Yang & Lin is a parasitoid of Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim on Erythrina spp. (Fabaceae) in Taiwan. Epitetrastichus nigriventris Girault, 1913 is removed from synonymy from Aprostocetus gala (Walker), and treated as the valid species A. nigriventris (Girault).
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2007
DOI: 10.1007/BF02981061
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Date: 10-08-2014
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3790.4.2
Abstract: Two new species of gall-inducing wasps, Selitrichodes casuarinae Fisher & La Salle sp. n. and Selitrichodes utilis Fisher & La Salle sp. n., are described from Micronesia (Guam, Rota and Palau Islands) and Australia respectively. These species induce galls on Casuarina and can cause extensive damage to the trees. Their status as pest or beneficial species is discussed.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-03-2007
Location: Australia
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