Trichogramma perkinsi Girault

 

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae

Year of introduction

1966

Source

Colombia

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

Recovered, but not established

Reference

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 (6), 149 p.

Notes Listed as distributed in India (West Bengal) by Hayat & Subba Rao (1986)