An Insight in the Reproductive Biology of Therophilus javanus (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, and Agathidinae), a Potential Biological Control Agent against the Legume Pod Borer (Lepidoptera, Crambidae)

Table 1

Egg (immature + mature eggs) number (mean number ± SD) in female Therophilus javanus after emergence. Caterpillars were three days old at the moment of oviposition.

	Number of eggs
	12 h after emergence	72 h after emergence
Ovariole
Female

Mean number of eggs (immature eggs + mature eggs) per ovariole and per female at 12 and 72 h after adult emergence. Eggs that were attached by nurse cells were recorded as immature eggs (black solid color in Figure 1), and well-formed eggs who displayed an ovoid form and had a slender tapering stalk at their posterior end were recorded as mature eggs (black striped color in Figure 1). Means followed by different letters between columns are significantly different between females at 12 h () and 72 h () after adult emergence only according to GLM with “quasi-Poisson distribution” and log-link function ().