Native parasitoids recruited by the invaded fall army worm in Niger Amadou Laouali1, Baoua Ibrahim2, Malick N. Ba3, Karimoune Laouali3, Muniappan Rangaswamy4,* 1Institut National de la Recherche Agronomiques du Niger, CERRA de Maradi, BP 240., Maradi, Niger 2Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi, BP 465, Maradi, Niger 3International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Niamey, Niger 4IPM Innovation Lab, Virginia Tech, 526 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, U.S.A *Corresponding author Email: rmuni@vt.edu
Online published on 5 February, 2019. Abstract Surveys of fall army worm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. S. Smith) on maize and sorghum in Niger revealed the occurrence of egg parasitoids (Trichogrammatoidea sp., Trichogramma sp., and Telenomus sp.), egg-larval parasitoids (Chelonus sp.), and larval parasitoids (Cotesia sp., and Charops sp.). Top Keywords Spodoptera frugiperda, Niger, maize, sorghum, parasitoids, Trichogrammatidae, Platygastridae, Braconidae. Top |