caa a22 4500 463168666 CHVBK 20180406164807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10530-006-9006-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10530-006-9006-8 Migratory moths as dispersal vectors of an introduced plant-pathogenic fungus in Japan [Elektronische Daten] [Shinji Sugiura, Kazuo Yamazaki] The plant-pathogenic fungus Claviceps paspali infects florets of the dallisgrass Paspalum dilatatum and induces the plant to produce honeydew (containing massive amounts of conidia), which in turn attracts insects for dispersal of the fungal spores. In Japan, the association between C. paspali and its host plant is common, although both P. dilatatum and C. paspali are introduced species. To determine the dispersal agents of the introduced C. paspali, we examined which insects sapped the P. dilatatum honeydew produced by C. paspali. The study was conducted from September to October 2003 in central Japan. Adults of 48 moth species and two lacewing species visited infected spikelets of P. dilatatum and sapped the honeydew at night. The dominant moths, which carried C. paspali conidia on their proboscises, migrate long distances every year. Therefore, migratory moths may transmit C. paspali spores from diseased to healthy host plants and may have spread C. paspali to other areas in Japan where C. paspali did not previously exist. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Claviceps paspali nationallicence Cnaphalocrocis medinalis nationallicence Dispersal nationallicence Invasion nationallicence Mythimna nationallicence Paspalum dilatatum nationallicence Sugiura Shinji Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan aut Yamazaki Kazuo Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Osaka, Japan aut Biological Invasions Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2007-03-01), 101-106 1387-3547 9:2<101 2007 9 10530 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9006-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9006-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sugiura Shinji Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yamazaki Kazuo Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Osaka, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biological Invasions Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2007-03-01), 101-106 1387-3547 9:2<101 2007 9 10530 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer