期刊论文

Li, YZ

英文

Insects

2075-4450

2022

13

3

10.3390/insects13030246

Author Contributions: Conceptualization, Z.L. and Y.L.; methodology, Z.L.; validation, Z.L., Z.Y., and Y.L.; formal analysis, Z.L.; investigation, Z.L.; data curation, Z.L.; writing—original draft preparation, Z.L.; writing—review and editing, Z.L. and Z.Y.; visualization, Z.L.; supervision, Y.L.; project administration, Z.L.; funding acquisition, Z.L. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript Funding: This research was funded by Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 2016JJ2067.

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Simple Summary In endoparasitoids that feed within small discrete resource patches, such as seeds or fruits, body size could be subject to a trade-off: larger size could lead to increased overall fitness but could simultaneously increase the risk of resource depletion and starvation, resulting in a body size just below the host holding capacity. We analyzed the relationship of the larval size of the within-fruits-developing curculionid beetle Curculio styracis (Roelofs, 1875) and the size of the fruits of its two congeneric host species of Camellia to test this hypothesis. A logistic model can...