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Taxonomic position |
Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae | |||
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Years of introduction |
1966, 2007 | |||
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Source |
Colombia (1966); France (2007) | |||
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Target pests |
Sugarcane borers, Chilo infuscatellus (Snellen), C. sacchariphagus indicus (Kapur), C. auricilius (Dudgeon), C. tumidicostalis (Hampson), Scirpophaga excerptalis (Walker) and Acigona steniellus (Hampson) |
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Crop |
Sugarcane | |||
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Present status |
Recovered, but not established | |||
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Reference |
Rao, V.P., Ghani, A.M., 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 (6), 149 p., CAB, Slough, UK. |
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Notes |
The species originally introduced in India as 'T. evanescens' was misidentified and actually is T. brassicae as confirmed by morphological and molecular evidence. The culture of the true T. evanescens (thelytokous form) obtained from INRA, France, has been now established at PDBC. |
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