The concetration of total protein and non protein nitrogen, lipid, trehalose, acid$.$alkaline phosphatase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic pyruvic transaminase and mineral salts during the pupal stage in the pine leaf gall midge, Thecodipt...
The concetration of total protein and non protein nitrogen, lipid, trehalose, acid$.$alkaline phosphatase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic pyruvic transaminase and mineral salts during the pupal stage in the pine leaf gall midge, Thecodiptosis japonensis Uchida et Inouye, were measured by using micro-Kjeldahl method, Thin layer chromatographic method, Anthrone method, Reitman-Frankel method, Oser method and EEL dame photometric method respectively. Healthy specimens were chosen as samples of each developmental stages; the prepupa and the late pupa. The concentration of total protein was 88.139mg/g in the prepupa and was 120.719mg/g in the late pupal stage. Non protein nitrogen contents was 2.292mg/g in the prepupa add was 4.225mg/g in the late pupal stage. In the late pupal stage total protein and non protein nit-rogen contents was higher than those in the prepupal stage. Total lipid, phospholipid, menoacylgly cerol, free fatty acid, sterol and ester cholesterol were identified in the prepupa and the late pupal stage. The concentration of total lipid was 150.0mg/g in the prepupa and was 162.8mg/g in the late pupal stage. With the exception of total lipid, phospholipid, monoacylglycerol, free fatty acid, sterol and ester cholesterol contents were higher than in the late pupa those in the prepupal stage. Rf value of trehalose analyzed on thin layer chromatogram was 0.714 in both stages, and the concentration of trehalose was 3.640mg/g in the Prepupa and was 3.553mg/g in the late pupal stage. The activity of acid phosphatase was 0.272unit/mg in the prepupal and was 0.281unit/mg in the late pupal stage, and alkaline phosphatase was 0.413unit/mg in the prepupa and was 0.546unit/mg in the late pupal stage. The activities of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase and glutamic pyruvic transaminase showed the same patterns wi th acid . alkaline phosphatase. Mineral salts present were calcium, phosphorus, sodium and potassium, which were identified in both stages. All kinds of mineral salts contents in the late pupa were higher than those in the prepupal stage. In view of controlling pest, the patterns of the physiological activties indicate that control will be the most effective at the time of the worst physiological manifested at the prepupal stage.