Cano José Martín, Gurrea Pilar, Montalbán Blanca, Ureña Leticia, Iglesias Javier
Laboratorio de Entomología, Departamento de Biología, C./ Darwin, 2, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, ES 28049 Madrid, España.
Rev Biol Trop. 2009 Sep;57(3):623-34. doi: 10.15517/rbt.v57i3.5479.
The lentil (Lens culinaris) is identified as a new host plant of the lepidopteran Tomares ballus. Five larvae of T. ballus were found on 19 May, 2007 in a crop of "castellana" lentils in Toledo Province, Spain and reared in the laboratory. The larval brown spiracles are slightly darker than the rest of the pupa. Traditional cultural practices reduce the insect's probability of completing its life-cycle. We present flight phenology data for T. ballus from the unedited Atlamar database (1,073 records from 1887 to 2003), based on the 438 records for which the year, month and day are known. This period coincides with the flowering and formation of the legumes of various species of leguminosae, such as lentils. The peak activity of the imagos occurs in the second half of March and the first half of April, and the last larvae must be present in the field until the beginning of June.
兵豆（Lens culinaris）被确定为鳞翅目昆虫汤氏豆灰蝶（Tomares ballus）的一种新寄主植物。2007年5月19日，在西班牙托莱多省一片“卡斯特利亚纳”兵豆作物上发现了5只汤氏豆灰蝶幼虫，并在实验室中进行饲养。幼虫的褐色气门比蛹的其他部分颜色略深。传统的种植方式会降低这种昆虫完成其生命周期的概率。我们根据未编辑的阿特拉马尔数据库（1887年至2003年的1073条记录）中已知年份、月份和日期的438条记录，给出了汤氏豆灰蝶的飞行物候数据。这一时期与各种豆科植物（如兵豆）的开花和结荚期相吻合。成虫的活动高峰期出现在3月下旬和4月上旬，最后一批幼虫必须在田间一直待到6月初。
