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Figure 1. Neighbor-Joining phylogenetic tree of the samples and the sequences retrieved from NCBI databank based on the
Tamura-Nei nucleotide substitution model (bootstrap repeats = 500). The bar indicates a TN genetic distance of 0.01.
Table 1. Rate of P. ficus mealybugs parasitized by A. sp. near pseudococci when different host
size classes were simultaleously offered to the parasitoid for 24 hours.
Host size classes (mm)
Rate of parasitism
n x ± s.e.
1.6–2.3 25 0.22 ± 0.05
>2.3 25 0.18 ± 0.05
n: number of replications
Table 2. Development time and size (headwidth) of female and male offspring of the para-
sitoid A. sp. near pseudococci, which emerged from different size classes of female adults of
the mealybug P. ficus.
Host size classes (mm)
Parasitoid development time (days) Headwidth (mm)
Females Males Females Males
n x ± s.e. n x ± s.e. n x ± s.e. n x ± s.e.
1.6–2.3 8 15.92 ± 0.66 10 17.58 ± 0.99 5 0.51 ± 0.03 19 0.45 ± 0.01
> 2.3 9 16.06 ± 0.59 12 16.54 ± 0.52 7 0.54 ± 0.02 13 0.46 ± 0.01
>1.6 (both size classes) 17 15.99 ± 0.43 22 17.01 ± 0.53 12 0.53 ± 0.02 21 0.46 ± 0.009
n: number of observations