Influencing factors and selection mechanisms of phytophagous insects for oviposition host plants

Oviposition behavior plays an important role in co-evolution of insect and host, and the relationship be-tween the preference of female generation and growth performance of offspring is the core in research on co-evolution of in-sect and host. This paper summarized the richness of host species and environment, growth performance of host, effects of utilization degree of host by other individuals on selection of phytophagous insects , and selection mechanism of sense of smell, vision and tactile sense in host selecting by phytophagous insects. It was proposed that in the future, perspectives from vision ecology and auditory ecology of insects should be adopted in studying oviposition behavior of phytophagous in-sects:strengthening relation between phytophagous insects and optical signal in environment, how to locate host via optical signal, whether phytophagous insects used acoustic apparatus to detect and locate the hosts via acoustic wave during ovipo-sition, and effects of acoustic wave with various bands on oviposition behavior of phytophagous insects. These proposals may broaden the researches in pest behavior regulation measures.