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)