Open AccessEgg development and life cycle of Chaetopteryx villosa (Trichoptera)
Author(s) -
Wagner Rüdiger
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
ecography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.973
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1600-0587
pISSN - 0906-7590
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1986.tb01222.x
Subject(s) - embryogenesis , biology , villosa , ecology , voltinism , invertebrate , zoology , larva , embryo , botany , fishery
Combined field and laboratory investigations showed that C. villosa was univoltine in the Breitenbach, Germany. Speed and duration of embryogenesis were determined by temperature. Lowest values of accumulated temperature occurred at 6 and 8°C, when the duration of embryogenesis was shortest, and egg mortality was low. Egg masses exposed at upstream field sites needed similar time and accumulated temperatures for embryogenesis to those expected from laboratory experiments. At a downstream site embryogenesis was accelerated, possibly depending on increased daily temperature fluctuations in spring. At all field sites the emergence period of adults lasted from September until December. Size and weight of both sexes were significantly lower at the upstream site, not necessarily as a result of temperature, but possibly caused by differences in nutrition.