Trichogramma minutum Riley

 

Taxonomic position	Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae
Year of introduction	1964
Source	Florida, USA
Target pests	Sugarcane borers, Chilo 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
Reference	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.
Notes	Reports of T. minutum from India up to 1970s are misidentifications of mostly T. chilonis, and to a lesser extent, T. japonicum (Hayat & Viggiani, 1985; Hayat & Subba Rao, 1986)