Indian Journal of Entomology
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  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 80
  • Issue: 4

Native parasitoids recruited by the invaded fall army worm in Niger

  • Author:
  • Laouali Amadou1, Ibrahim Baoua2, N. Ba Malick3, Laouali Karimoune3, Rangaswamy Muniappan4,
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 1253 to 1254

1Institut National de la Recherche Agronomiques du Niger, CERRA de Maradi, BP 240., Maradi, Niger

2Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi, BP 465, Maradi, Niger

3International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Niamey, Niger

4IPM Innovation Lab, Virginia Tech, 526 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, U.S.A

*Corresponding author Email: rmuni@vt.edu

Online published on 5 February, 2019.

Abstract

Surveys of fall army worm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. S. Smith) on maize and sorghum in Niger revealed the occurrence of egg parasitoids (Trichogrammatoidea sp., Trichogramma sp., and Telenomus sp.), egg-larval parasitoids (Chelonus sp.), and larval parasitoids (Cotesia sp., and Charops sp.).

Keywords

Spodoptera frugiperda, Niger, maize, sorghum, parasitoids, Trichogrammatidae, Platygastridae, Braconidae