Cotesia diatraeae (Muesebeck)

 

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Braconidae Cotesia diatraeae

Year of introduction

 1959, 1969, 1972

Source

 Trinidad

Target pests

Chilo partellus (Swinhoe); Sugarcane borers, C. infuscatellus (Snellen), C. sacchariphagus indicus (Kapur), C. auricilius (Dudgeon), C. tumidicostalis (Hampson), Scirpophaga excerptalis (Walker) and Acigona steniellus (Hampson)

Crop

 Sugarcane

Present status

 Not released

References

1. Rao, V.P., Ghani, AM., Sankaran, T. and Mathur, K.C. 1971. A review of the biological control of insects and other pests in South East Asia and the Pacific region. Commonwealth Institute of Biological  Control Technical Communication No. 6, 149 p., CAB, Slough, UK.

2. Sankaran, T. 1974. Natural enemies introduced in recent years for biological control of agricultural pests in India. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 44 (7): 425-433.