Pathogens of Reduviidae (assassin bugs)

XIX. PATHOGENS OF REDUVIIDAE (ASSASSIN BUGS) Donald W. Roberts Boyce Thompson Institute Tower Road, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853, USA 159 160 5.4 CaO- 00 CaO-C) 5.i'- r- 5.* 44 co 0% co to c ) go C0 5.4 0~1 $. 40 0d44.o o . co -.4 o colae "-4 -4 ~ -r W " n _ 4)5400 4 -1 0~-3 co > cao '.4Z- Ca0 00 *-40C N -"400 '~~~~1 oC Ca-a -ca 4~~~~~$X X z H "4 Q co C-d 00 C 00 00 CC) V 00 co0c Z~~~~~" H V4 "4_ a) <: c~ 3 0~~~~0o X C Ca< >0 0 a) Ca4 00 a ) U U 0" 0 0 404o4 0 0 4a Ca *4Ca Ca Ca J Ca a) a)j~~~~~c00 ~~~~CaI 00~46 '0~~~~~ UCC .0 .04- 41 CL~~~~~C 0.0.~~~ 4.1~~~~~~~~~~1 a)~~~~~~~~- 161 ABSTRACTS *Costa, M. D. M. (1978). Suscetibilidade do triatomineo Rhodnius prolixus ao fungo entomopatogenico Metarrhizium anisopliae. An. Acad. Medicine de Bahia (Brazil) 1 April, pp. 35-44. Conidia of M. anisopliae were sprayed onto R. prolixus. The treated insects, but not the untreated controls, died 10 to 30 days after exposure. *Parameswaran, G. & Sankaran, T. (1977). Record of Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. on Linshcosteus sp. (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) in India. J. Entom. Res., 1: 113-114. An isolate of Beauveria bassiana from a dead adult Linshcosteus sp. collected near Bangalore, India, was pathogenic to nymphs and adults of Linshcosteus spp. and Triatoma rubrofasciata. Mortality was 100% of inoculated insects and 0% of untreated insects. Death occurred from 5-26 days after exposure to conidia.