Natural parasitism in fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) and interaction with wild hosts surrounding apple orchards adjacent to Atlantic Forest fragments in Paraná State, Brazil

Abstract The South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is an important pest in the subtropical region of Brazil. This insect has tritrophic relation between wild fruits and parasitoids and is associated with apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) orchards adjacent to the Atlantic Forest in Paraná. We thus investigated the degree of infestation of the fruit fly and natural parasitism in wild and cultivated fruits surrounding apple orchards. For this purpose, we collected fruits of Acca sellowiana (Berg.) Burret, Campomanesia xanthocarpa (Mart), Eugenia uniflora L., Eugenia pyriformis Cambessèdes, Psidium cattleianum Sabine, Psidium guajava (L.), Annona neosericea Rainer and Eriobotrya japonica (Thumb) in apple orchards adjacent to the Atlantic Forest located in Campo do Tenente, Lapa and Porto Amazonas counties. In total, we collected 18,289 fruits during four growing years. The occurrence of A. fraterculus depends on the susceptible period of apple fruits. A. sellowiana and P. cattleianum were considered primary fruit fly multipliers and P. guajava was secondary, all occurring after the apple harvest (IS period). The group of parasitoids with A. fraterculus was Aganaspis pelleranoi (Brèthes, 1924) (Hymenoptera: Figitidae), Opius bellus (Gahan, 1930), Doryctobracon areolatus (Szépligeti, 1911) and Doryctobracon brasiliensis (Szépligeti, 1911) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) all of which are first records in the Atlantic Forest in Paraná. First record of O. bellus occurring in the State of Paraná, as well as, first record of the tritrophic association between host plant A. neosericea, parasitoids D. areolatus and O. bellus and fruit fly A. fraterculus. The host P. cattleianum stood out among the Myrtaceae species in regard to the high diversity of parasitoid species (81% of parasitoids). The total number of Figitidae species (76.5%) was higher than that of Braconidae species. The influence of climatic events in southern Brazil on wild fruit production should be further studied to understand the association of A. fraterculus with the tritrophic relationship.

these species constitute essential information to design biological control programs (García-Medel et al., 2007).
Therefore, the aim of the current study was to assess the degree of infestation and natural parasitism in wild and cultivated fruit commonly attacked by fruit fly, as well as to provide more detailed information on the diversity and abundance of parasitoids in apple-growing areas in Paraná State.In this study, we documented: i) tritrophic interactions among hosts, fruit flies and their natural enemies; ii) infestation rates by systematically collecting wild and commercial fruits over four growing seasons (2013/14-2016/17) in apple orchards adjacent to patches of native vegetation.

Study area
The study was conducted on six farms growing both 'Gala' and 'Eva' apple cultivars located in the counties of Campo do Tenente (CT), Lapa (LA) and Porto Amazonas (PA), Paraná State, which constituted 250, 110 and 130 hectares, respectively.The cultivar 'Eva' is early-maturing and has low chilling requirements, whereas the cultivar 'Gala' is mid-maturing and produces fruits later than 'Eva' (Hauagge and Tsuneta, 1999).Most of the apple orchards are cultivated with 35% 'Eva' and 55% 'Gala'; each orchard contains 10% of pollinator apple cultivars.

Climate
The period of study comprised four growing seasons (August to July) from 2013/14 to 2016/17 (Y1-Y4).The climate in southern Brazil is humid-temperate with moderately hot summers and no dry season and is characterized by low temperatures between May and September, with a gradual increase of temperature to December (Aparecido et al., 2016).During the study period, the annual average temperature (Tave) was 17.6°C and varied slightly among years (from 17.3°C in Y1 to 18.0°C in Y3), but Y3 was the hottest year (Figure 1).

Introduction
The population dynamics of fruit flies and their associated natural enemies is strongly influenced by habitat structure (Aluja et al., 2014;Schliserman et al., 2014).Attacks on fruit flies remain an important phytosanitary challenge, limiting fruit production worldwide (Montoya et al., 2016) due to the damage to the fruit pulp caused by larvae (Bisognin et al., 2015).
The genus Anastrepha Schiner stands out among the family Tephritidae in the Neotropical region, which extends from the south of the United States to the north of Argentina (Norrbom et al., 1999).Today, there are 283 species within this genus (Norrbom and Korytkowski, 2009).Brazil has the largest number of Anastrepha species (121), ten of which cause economic losses (Zucchi, 2000).In Paraná State, the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann, 1830) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is the main pest of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.)orchards, and the apple-growing areas in Paraná State are adjacent to patches of native Atlantic Forest (Monteiro et al., 2019).Worldwide, the Atlantic Forest biome is recognized as an important hotspot of biodiversity (Myers et al., 2000).The management capabilities of current agro-ecosystems are reduced, and this situation necessitates rethinking the management of fruit flies.Today, integrated pest management (IPM) programs against fruit flies focus on a more sustainable approach to mitigate the adverse effects commonly associated with the use of pesticides.
The majority of parasitoids associated with Tephritidae belong to the subfamilies Opiinae (Braconidae) and Eucoilinae (Figitidae) (Guimarães and Zucchi, 2004).In Brazil, several studies of Tephritidae fruit flies, hosts and parasitoids have been carried out in different locations with a diversity of habitat and climate conditions (Silva et al., 2010;Souza et al., 2012;Adaime et al., 2018).All these surveys showed that specimens of Braconidae and Figitidae have potential for use in biological control (Garcia and Corseuil, 2004;Nunes et al., 2012;Gonçalves et al., 2016).Understanding the abundance and parasitism level of The minimum temperature (Tmin) in August, September, October and November in (Y2) was 1.2ºC, 1.9ºC, 1.5ºC and 1.0ºC higher, respectively, than that the same period in Y1, as the Tmin in Y3 was 2.3ºC, 0.3ºC, 0.5ºC and 0.5ºC higher than that in Y2, respectively.In the last year, the Tmin was 3.4º, 4.4º, 2.3º and 2.2ºC colder than that in Y3 and 1.1º, 4.0º, 1.8º, respectively, and 1.7ºC colder than that in Y2 (Meteorological System of Paraná -SIMEPAR).
The total rainfall per season varied from 1,345.0 to 1,626.6, 1,901.1 and 1,202.4mm from Y1 to Y4, respectively.The mean daily precipitation in October, November and December in Y2 was 3.1, 2.3 and 3.8 mm higher, respectively, than that in Y1.Overall, Y3 was characterized as a very strong El Niño according to the Oceanic Niño Index and was considered the most intense El Niño in the last 40 years (Ferreira et al., 2016;INPE, 2016), leading to 51 mm more rainfall each month.Both Y2 and Y3 were rainy years in the six and seven months, respectively, but the precipitation in Y2 was slightly more intense in September and October than that in Y3.In contrast, Y4 was a year of very little rainfall, with no rain in September and less daily precipitation, 3.1, 4.1 and 4.2 mm in October, November and December, respectively, compared to that in Y3 (SIMEPAR).

Landscape
The native vegetation in this area is a mixedombrophilous southern Atlantic Forest biome, which is recognized worldwide as a hotspot of biodiversity (Myers et al., 2000).To characterize the landscapes adjacent to commercial apple orchards, monitoring of native and exotic plant species that may have a relationship with fruit fly was carried out (Foelkel, 2015).This was done from the border of all the apple orchards up to 50 m within the forest, divided into sectors every 100 m, by walking along and within the forest during the year preceding the beginning of the experiment (Schliserman et al., 2014;Araujo et al., 2019).
The agricultural year was defined as beginning in August, with the breaking of dormancy.Two sampling periods were established based on the phenology of two apple cultivars: the susceptibility (S) and insusceptibility (IS) periods (Araujo et al., 2019).The susceptible period was subdivided into S1, which was composed of 30 days after full bloom, when the apples were at the "J" stage of development (i.e., fruits were between 20 to 25 mm in diameter), and characterized by a low fluctuation history of fruit flies in the region, and S2, covering 45 days before harvest, which coincides with a high fluctuation of fruit flies and their control (Araujo et al., 2019).The dates of S1 ranged from 1/9 to 20/10, and those of S2 ranged from 21/10 to 10/2.The IS period was the time from the postharvest of apples until stage J.
Five orchards used similar IPM, and only one orchard sprayed more insecticides than the average amount used by the other orchards and was denominated the conventional orchard (CO).The insecticides sprayed in S1 were almost exclusively for Lepidoptera (Tortricidae) pest control (mean 3.1 applications in IPM) in 95.5% of cases.In the CO, there was an average increase of 61.3% than the IPM used in the other orchards.In S2, the average amount of insecticides used increased (mean 3.8 applications in IPM) with a higher occurrence of fruit fly.The total number of sprays in the CO was 75% higher than that in the IPM used in the other orchards.

Fruit sampling and insect emergence
Fruits were collected from nine hosts tree demarcated, packed in separate plastic boxes (from the tree or the soil), and sent to the IPM Laboratory at the Federal University of Paraná for insect identification.In the laboratory, fruits were counted from each sample, weighed and arranged in plastic boxes (30 cm length x 20 cm width x 15 cm height) with a 2 cm layer of vermiculite, which served as a pupation substrate.Each plastic box was closed with vented lids covered with organza.All samples were kept in climate-controlled chambers at 25±1°C and 70% RH with a photoperiod of 16:8 (L:D) h.The vermiculite was examined weekly to remove pupae for rearing and discarded after 30 days from sampling.
To obtain parasitoids, one new procedure for the organization of pupae was developed using 48-well microplates (127.6 mm length, 85.5 mm width, and 20.2 mm depth) (Kasvi, China) adapted for daily observation over 60 days.The recovered pupae were transferred into transparent culture plates with a single pupa deposited in each well.The plates were covered with a filter and closed with a polystyrene lid.The filter of each plate was in contact with its pupa, and it was moistened with distilled water.The plates were kept in climate-controlled chambers at 25±1 o C and 70% RH for a photoperiod of 16:8 (L:D) h.The parasitoids and fruit flies that emerged were stored individually in vials with 92% ethanol for subsequent identification.

Identification of fruit flies and parasitoids
Fruit fly specimens of the genus Anastrepha were sexed and identified using Zucchi (2000).Female species were identified based primarily on the aculeus, body and wing markings.Braconidae parasitoids were identified based on Daza and Zucchi (2000).

Data summary
Fruit infestation was calculated either as the number of pupae per fruit and as the number of pupae per kg of fruit to account for differences in individual fruit weight among hosts (Marsaro Júnior et al., 2013).The pupae viability in each host was calculated by the number of adults+parasitoids/pupae*100.Hosts were classified into primary, secondary and tertiary multipliers by classes based on the quartiles and the number of pupae per kg of fruit, which was determined using the Excel program (Microsoft, San Francisco, USA).The first, second, third and fourth quartiles were defined as 0-10, 1-39, 40-132 and more than 133 pupae per kilo, respectively, using all data.Multiplier hosts were calculated using the formula fruit fly number in the three+four quartiles by total fruit fly number*100, so the primary host represented more than 65.0%, the secondary represented between 35.0% and 65.0%, and the tertiary represented less than 35.0%.
The percentage of parasitism was calculated by dividing the number of emerged adult parasitoids by the total number of pupae in all samples of the host*100 (Schliserman et al., 2010).The sample parasitism percentage was calculated by dividing the number of samples with parasitoids by the number of samples with fruit fly pupae*100.The percentage of parasitoid species in relationship to the parasitoid community was calculated as the number of parasitoids divided by the total number of parasitoids*100.
The ratio of parasitism was calculated as the number of parasitoids in each sample to the number of adult fruit flies plus the number of parasitoids.In this case, the rate was related to the fruit flies that emerged and excluded natural or methodological mortality.

Statistical analyses
The variation in the number of pupae per sample was analysed using a general linear model including the farm (6 levels), the sampling year (Y1-Y4), the host (E.uniflora was excluded due to its small sample size), the weight of the fruit sample (quantitative) and the interaction of the last two variables.We used a negative binomial distribution to account for overdispersion in the data.Model residuals were inspected visually (package DHARMa) with R.3.4.1 software (R Development Core Team, 2017).When a factor was significant, pairwise comparisons between factor levels were performed using post-hoc Tukey tests (package multcomp) with R.3.4.1 software.The same model was used to analyse apple infestations, although the host factor was removed from the model in this case.
To assess factors explaining variations in parasitism in fruit fly hosts, the proportion of parasitoids among recovered adults was analysed using a generalized linear model including the host plant (Levels) and the number of recovered adults as fixed factors.The observation identifier was included as a random factor to account for overdispersion of data.All the model residuals were inspected visually (package DHARMa).When a factor was significant, pairwise comparisons between factor levels were investigated using post-hoc Tukey tests (package multcomp).
CT contained four fruit fly hosts, LA contained seven hosts and PA contained only one host (Table 2). A. neosericea was present in the three municipalities surveyed (PA, CT and LA); C. xanthocarpa, E. uniflora and P. cattleianum were found in two of the three municipalities surveyed (CT and LA); and finally, A. sellowiana, P. guajava and E. japonica were only present in LA.Fruits from E. uniflora, E. pyriformis A total of 18,289 fruits (731.66 kg) were sampled from 1,396 samples, of which 17.1% were native host fruits and the remainder were exotic hosts (Table 1 and 3).In addition, 60.8% (n= 829 samples) were collected during the S period and 41.4% (n= 567) in IS.In S1, there were 65 samples (7.8% samples of the S period; n 1 = 1,098 fruits; n 2 = 14.3% of all fruits in S), of which 85.0% were apple fruits, 11.0% were E. japonica, and the remainder were early C. xanthocarpa.In S2, there were 764 samples (n 1 = 6,579 fruits; n 2 = 85.7% of all fruits in S), of which 96.2% were apple and 3.3% were C. xanthocarpa.In IS, 10,612 fruits were collected, of which 62.1% were apple (n 1 = 3,504 fruits; n 2 = 33.0% of all fruits in IS) and 21.7% were P. cattleianum (n 1 = 5,664; n 2 = 53.4.0%), while the other hosts had 6.0% each.

Index of pupae fruit flies
Fruit fly pupae were collected from 55.7% of the samples (n= 780 samples with pupae; n 1 = 27,531 pupae) and 16.6% were only collected from wild hosts (n= 232; n 1 = 23.037;n 2 = 83.6% of all pupae).Only 27.0% of the pupae did not emerge.All the identified flies were A. fraterculus.
The number of pupae per fruit of all hosts varied by growing season; 6.6% of the total pupae were collected in Y2; 25.1% and 17.6% of the total pupae were collected in Y1 and Y3, respectively; and 50.7% of the total pupae, the highest number, were collected in Y4.The wild hosts in S had 0.5 pupae per fruit (S1= 1.0 pupa per fruit, n 1 = 606 total pupae in period; S2= 0.3, n 1 = 326) compared to 4.1 pupae per fruit in the IS period (n 1 = 22,105).The number of pupae per fruit of all hosts in S was 0.3 (S1= 0.0 pupa per fruit, n 1 = 4; S2= 0.3, n 1 = 1,339), increasing by four times in IS (n 1 = 3,504).
In the apple, the number of pupae increased with the weight of the samples (F= 35.4,p= <0.0001) and depended on the growing season (Chi2 = 24.8,df= 3, p= <0.0001); the number of pupae was higher in Y2 than in Y1, and no other pairwise difference was significant.The number of pupae per kg of fruit in wild hosts was 242.9 in IS against 59.1 pupae in S (S1= 70.3; S2= 55.1), and in apple hosts, it was 18.5 and 3.1 (S1= 0.5 and S2= 3.3), respectively.In native hosts, fruit infestation was high with a large variability among years (Table 4) and was higher in Y4 than in Y1 (F= 1.82, P= 0.003) and Y3 (F= 0.78, P= <0.001) and higher in A. sellowiana (364.9 pupae per kg), P. cattleianum (302.6),E. pyriformis (194.4) and P. guajava (132.9)than in the other species.Among Rosaceae, E. japonica and apple had 52.0 and 7.8 pupae per kg, respectively.Using the quartile model, the A. sellowiana and P. cattleianum hosts were considered to be primary multipliers, with 87.5% and 67.5% of pupae in the 3+4 quartiles (from 292.8 to 1.730.4pupae per kg), respectively.P. guajava was ranked as a secondary multiplier with 44.4% of pupae, and the other hosts were defined as tertiary multipliers (below 35% of pupae).
Analysing adult emergence in wild hosts in the S period, there were 746 adults (S1= 547, n 1 = 73.3% of S period;  The pupae collected from apple in S1 had lower viability (50.0%) than those from S2 (72.0%), while the viability of pupae collected in IS was 67.0% without insecticide pressure.In IS, the viability average percentage of pupae collected from Myrtaceae and Rosaceae was similar (71.0 and 68.0%, respectively).
The emergence of parasitoids occurred on six of the nine hosts (the exceptions were E. japonica, E. uniflora and E. pyriformis) (Table 5).Most parasitoids emerged from P. cattleianum (416 parasitoids), followed by A. sellowiana (49), P. guajava (25) and C. xanthocarpa (18) (P= <0.001).The largest diversity of parasitoids occurred in P. cattleianum, with five species present, followed by C. xanthocarpa and A. sellowiana, with four species each (Table 5).In contrast, a single species was recovered from apple.These data correlated well only the number of pupae per kg of fruit of fruit fly with in P. cattleianum for Braconidae (r 2 = 0.90) and Figitidae (r 2 = 0.75).

Discussion
The Atlantic Forest off the coast of Brazil has a rich native flora (Myers et al., 2000), and many species are described as fruit fly hosts (Zucchi, 2000); however, few species are considered to be multiplier hosts (Foelkel, 2015;Aluja et al., 2014;Araujo et al., 2019).As apple orchards are planted in areas adjacent to the Atlantic Forest, it is possible that native fruit trees can be sources of fruit fly for orchards, and their removal is often considered by farmers.However, the presence of Myrtaceae in the Atlantic Forest, on the edge of apple orchards, did not increase of fruit fly compared to forests without hosts (Araujo et al., 2019).We identified only six Myrtaceae, one Annonaceae and one exotic Rosaceae host as the most likely multipliers of fruit fly hosts of the Paraná Atlantic Forest corroborated by Foelkel (2015); in our research, five host cannot be considered to be fruit fly multipliers and may have been influenced by the climate and/or their location in the forest, for example, by the level of shading (Muniz, 2008).This was the case for C. xanthocarpa of which practically none fruited in Y1 and Y2.The same phenomenon occurred in E. uniflora, with no fruit in Y1 and Y2.In the IS period, in A. neosericea there were few fruits in Y4.E. pyriformis only produced fruits in the last year.Other factors may also be related to the abundance of fruits, such as the genetics of these hosts.
The separation of the agricultural cycle into the S and IS periods was relevant in this study.In the S, period the maturation of fruits of E. uniflora and C. xanthocarpa were early compared to the maturation of apple.There was an expectation that these hosts could produce populations of fruit fly that would be able to migrate to the apple plots, but E. uniflora had few fruits that did not produce pupae and C. xanthocarpa had almost the same number of pupae per kg of fruit (0.24, n= 26 sampling, n 1 = 2,231 fruits) compared to apple (0.30, n= 736, n 1 = 4,319).One of possible reasons for these findings was the poor quality of both fruits produced in the S period because these fruits lose their bark consistency in high humidity (Sacramento et al., 2007).A similar case was observed in E. japonica, where the number of pupae per fruit in Y2 decreased compared to that in Y3.
The samples with pupae were larger in the wild hosts (83.0% of samples) than the apple (47.9%).It is usually stated that the reduction in fruit fly in apple is due to the use of insecticides; however, in the IS period there were no phytosanitary treatments.Most pupae were collected in IS (85%) and may be associated with temperatures that are higher and favourable for the insect (Rosa et al., 2017).In agreement, the number of pupae per fruit in the IS period was 3.0, while in S, it was six times lower.Finally, it must be considered that apple is not a preferred host of fruit fly (Ovruski et al., 2010).A. fraterculus was the only species of fruit fly found in native and exotic plants in the Atlantic Forest in Paraná.Myrtaceae hosts were the main hosts, with 78.0% of adult fruit fly found in all fruit trees.Considering only wild fruits, this percentage of Myrtaceae increased to 94.4%, similar to the report by Bisognin et al. (2015).However, when the potential of each host in the four growing seasons was analysed, only A. sellowiana and P. cattleianum were considered primary multipliers of SSF, and P. guajava was secondary, all occurring in IS.Primary multipliers annually produce large quantities of fruit fly, as observed by Bisognin et al. (2015) and Nunes et al. (2012).In our study, the pupae values for P. cattleianum were 12.3 times higher than those obtained by Bisognin et al. (2015).Among the tertiary hosts defined in this work, E. japonica also had a low number of Anastrepha flies according to Uramoto et al. (2004) and Souza-Filho et al. (2009); however, it was considered a fruit fly multiplier by Schliserman et al. (2010).
P. cattleianum stood out among the Myrtaceae species not only due to the high rate of fruit fly infestation but also to the diversity of parasitoid species (81% of parasitoids), in agreement with Raga et al. (2005Raga et al. ( , 2011) ) and Silva et al. (2010).The presence/absence of parasitoids can be tightly associated with the diversity and type of host fruit in a particular environment (Ovruski et al., 2000;Schliserman et al., 2010).
In this study, the total number of Figitidae species was higher than that of Braconidae species, unlike the findings of other authors (Ovruski et al., 2000;Garcia and Corseuil, 2004;Nicácio et al., 2011;Nunes et al., 2012).These results may be due to our pupae management methodology because some Figitidae took up to 60 days to emerge after the formation of fruit fly pupae.The paper filter humidification system allows pupae to be monitored for long periods of time.Most braconids emerged up to 15 days after the emergence of adults of Anastrepha.
Information on parasitoids with fruit fly is scarce for the Paraná State (Menezes Junior et al., 1997;Daza and Zucchi, 2000), and the presence of A. pelleranoi, D. areolatus, O. bellus and D. brasiliensis were the first records in Atlantic Forest in Paraná.O. bellus was the first register in Paraná State, as well as, first record of the tritrophic association between host plant A. neosericea, parasitoids D. areolatus and O. bellus and fruit fly A. fraterculus, as expected since all these species are native to the Neotropical region (Ovruski et al., 2000).D. areolatus, O. bellus and A. pelleranoi are widely distributed in Latin America; however, D. brasiliensis is known to occur in southern Brazil and northern Argentina (Ovruski et al., 2000;Schliserman et al., 2010).
The finding that D. areolatus was the most abundant among the Braconidae species registered agrees with previous surveys that also highlight this species as the most abundant in many agro-ecosystems (Ovruski et al., 2000;Garcia and Corseuil, 2004;Nunes et al., 2012).The parasitism of braconids on C. xanthocarpa in S was low (1.7%), while no parasitism occurred on E. uniflora and E. japonica, although Nunes et al. (2012) showed that E. uniflora is a species with good number of parasitoids.In the IS period, Braconidae were mostly found on P. cattleianum (81.0% of the total of braconids) and A. sellowiana (11.6%).The temperature in IS (17 to 27°C) may be favourable for the development of parasitoids because 98.3% of all braconids were emerged in this period; it was corroborated by (Gonçalves et al., 2014).
Figitids were also more abundant on P. cattleianum (80.5% of figitids) than on other species, such as A. sellowiana (8.9%).Like braconids, figitids had a good correlation with the pupae abundance of fruit fly in P. cattleianum (r 2 = 0.75).The parasitism of figitids on the C. xanthocarpa host was low (4.1%), similar to that of braconids, and there was no parasitism on E. uniflora or E. japonica, as reported by Souza-Filho et al. (2009).Although A. pelleranoi responds positively to volatiles of Myrtaceae plants (Guimarães and Zucchi, 2004), this species has been considered to be more generalist than braconids, occurring in peach and apple (Ovruski et al., 2000;Nunes et al., 2012).Thus, A. pelleranoi may be present in the S and IS periods because the most suitable temperature for their development is from 18 to 25°C (Gonçalves et al., 2014); however, they were abundant only in IS (95.4% of all figitids) with increased Tmin.
The braconid D. areolatus, similar to A. pelleranoi, can develop in mild temperatures (17 to 25ºC), but they can withstand a higher temperature than A. pelleranoi (Souza-Filho et al., 2009;Silva et al., 2010;Adaime et al., 2018).The low temperatures at the altitude of 900 m in Paraná orchards could be better for A. pelleranoi.
Parasitoids utilize a wide variety of fruit-associated chemicals in host location (Godfray, 1994;Eitam et al., 2003).Both of the most abundant species of our survey, D. areolatus and A. pelleranoi, seem to be mainly attracted by volatiles of fruits (Eitam et al., 2003;Guimarães and Zucchi, 2004), and the fruit fly larvae in the third instar to attract figitids, mainly in fallen fruits (Gonçalves et al., 2016).During our study, the majority of samples were from fallen fruits, in agreement with Schliserman et al. (2010) and Ovruski et al. (2000), who recovered the majority of Figitidae from the ground.
In our study, the highest level of fruit fly parasitism and the greatest diversity were detected in wild hosts than in agricultural areas, as observed by Aluja et al. (2014) and Souza et al. (2012).Many parasitoids have movement ranges that are substantially shorter than those of their of fruit fly hosts (Aluja et al., 2014); therefore, the absence of fruit in the S period or the disposition of the host has a greater effect on parasitoids than polyphagous fruit flies because there is evidence that parasitoids tend to follow their host and multiply into the same fragments as the host (Wajnberg et al., 2007;Aluja et al., 2014).
In general, the diversity and abundance of parasitoids species are very sensitive to ecosystem disturbances, such as climate and phytosanitary events (Aluja et al., 2014;Adaime et al., 2018).Native species of parasitoids are particularly abundant in forests and non-commercial landscapes (Sivinski et al., 2006), and natural suppression of Atlantic Forest adjacent areas could increase the number of adult fruit flies available to move into the orchards, as shown by Aluja et al. (2014) and Araujo et al. (2019).Our results reinforce the importance of tritrophic research among vegetal hosts, fruit flies, and their parasitoids.

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.Minimum air temperature ( o C) and rainfall (mm) monthly in Porto Amazonas, Brazil, from September to January over four growing seasons (Meteorological System of Paraná -SIMEPAR).

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. Relative abundance of A. fraterculus parasitoids recovered from six host plants from apple orchards adjacent to the Atlantic Forest of Paraná, Brazil (2013-17).

Figure 3 .
Figure 3. Percentage and rate of parasitism of fruit fly host plants in the Paraná Atlantic Forest, 2012-2017.The percentage of parasitism was calculated for total pupae; the rate of parasitism was calculated for adult emergence.Different letters indicate differences (p < 0.05) of the percentage of parasitism (Tukey 5%).

Table 1 .
Fruit fly hosts and samples of fruits in the Paraná Atlantic Forest Brazil.

family Wild and commercial hosts Common name Status Fruit (n) Weight (kg)
Fruit sampling in the S1 period occurred in four hosts: M. domesticus, E. japonica, E. uniflora and C. xanthocarpa; fruit sampling in the S2 period occurred in two hosts: M. domesticus and C. xanthocarpa.Most of the native hosts were sampled during IS: A. neosericea, P. cattleianum, A. sellowiana, P. guajava, E. uniflora and E. pyriformis.
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2023, vol.83, e2505055/12Parasitism in fruit fly in wild hosts surrounding apple orchards and A. sellowiana were sampled during Y3 and Y4, and fruits from C. xanthocarpa and E. japonica were sampled in Y2, Y3 and Y4 due to the heterogeneity in the fruit production of these trees.3.2.Fruit samples

Table 2 .
Sampling period in wild and exotic fruit fly hosts in three periods of susceptible apples during four growing years in three municipalities ofParaná, Brazil (2013-17).
1 Number of parasitoid/number of pupa, calculated with all samples.

Table 4 .
ANOVA of the number of A. fraterculus pupae in six native hosts 1 as a function of year, sample weight, host, and the interaction between the two latter variables.