Orthopelma mediator (Thunberg, 1822)

Mete, Özlem, Received, Yusuf Orhan Mergen, Online, Published & Version, Final, 2017, The community components associated with two common rose gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Diplolepidini) in Turkey, Turkish Journal of Zoology 41 (4), pp. 696-701 : 700-701

O. mediator

15.3%

Figure 2. Relative abundances of community members in Diplolepis rosae galls (community members that have less than 1% abundance were not included in the graph).

Emergence periods of the community members in the D. rosae galls are shown in Table 5.

Here, D. fructuum was observed to be very common on dog roses ( Rosa spp. , Rosa canina in this study), as mentioned by Güçlü et al. (2008). During the study, a total of 5197 D. fructuum galls were collected, and 14,256 gall wasps were obtained from these samples; these numbers were limited to 95 galls and 117 gall wasps for D. rosae . Considering this, and taking into account the parasitoid and inquiline abundances in 2 communities associated with these gall wasps (50% for D. fructuum , and 90% for D. rosae ), it may be thought that future studies that focus on the limiting effects of parasitoid and inquiline pressure on D. rosae population may give interesting results.

Acknowledgments

We express our deepest gratitude to Dr Hosseinali Lotfalizadeh (Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection,