Aşkın
GÖKTÜRK1 Berna
ÇELİK GÖKTÜRK2 Yaşar
AKSU2
1Artvin Coruh University Faculty
of Forestry, Department of Forestry Engineering, Artvin.
2Artvin Forest Regional
Directorate, Forest Protection substation Directorate, Artvin
agokturk@artvin.edu.tr
Abstract
Colutea
armena is a species of shrub that naturally
spreads in the Artvin region and is the host of many butterfly and insect
species. Although it have spread in groups in only a few different places
before the completion of the dams built on the Coruh River, today its heavily
expands among the roads and the south slopes around the dam in clusters and
individually. The increase in spread of C.
armena might be cause the habitats of seed pests to expand. In this study,
it is aimed to determine the species that prefer C. armena as a host. Between 1-7 May 2018, seed capsules that are
found to be harmful have been collected from areas, which have been spread
naturally. The collected capsules were opened in the laboratory environment and
the harmful larvae and pupas were removed. Their diagnoses were carried out
under the microscope.
As a result of the study it has been
determined that, the larva feed on C.
armena seeds is larva of Iolana iolas
(Anatolian Giant Blue). Other species found in seed capsules were ant species
associated with mutual interest on I.
iolas larvae, larvae of parasites and species that parasitizes these
parasitoids. These species are Camponotus
ionius (Emeray, 1920), Lasius
emarginatus (Olivier, 1792), Anisobas
cephalotes (Kriechbaumer, 1882), Eurytoma spp., Cotesia spp., Bruchophagus
robiniae (Zerova, 1970), Bruchophagus spp and Baryscapus endemus (Walker, 1839). Baryscapus endemus is a hyperparasitoid
that parasitoids of Bruchophagus robiniae, Bruchophagus spp, Cotesia
spp, Eurytoma spp. Although Iolana iolas is pest of C. armena
seeds, it is an endangered species of butterflies in the UICN's red list. Considering the excess amount of seed
production of C. armena, the damage
situation of I. iolas can be
considered as insignificant. It would be beneficial to increase the spreading
area of the C. armena plant, for the
protection of I. iolas because of the
excess of parasites.
Key words: Colutea armena,
host plant, seed pest, Iolana iolas
Yayın yeri: Gokturk, A., Celik Gokturk, B., Aksu, Y.,
2018. Artvin Yöresi Colutea armena (Patlangaç) Türünün Tohum Zararlıları,
Uluslararası Artvin Sempozyumu, 18-20 Ekim 2018, Artvin.
