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Food web of insects associated with the cassava mealybug, Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), and its introduced parasitoid, Epidinocarsis lopezi (De Santis) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

P. Neuenschwander ,
R. D. Hennessey  and
H. R. Herren
P. Neuenschwander
Affiliation:
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, PMB 5320, Ibadan, Nigeria
R. D. Hennessey
Affiliation:
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, PMB 5320, Ibadan, Nigeria
H. R. Herren
Affiliation:
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, PMB 5320, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Abstract

About 130 species of parasitoids and predators are reported, most of them for the first time, to be associated directly or indirectly with the cassava pest Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero and its parasitoid, Epidinocarsis lopezi (De Santis), newly introduced into Africa as a biological control agent. About 20 species are common. The species are grouped in 11 guilds, which include the indigenous hyperparasitoids, which originally attacked parasitoids of other mealybugs, the predators with which E. lopezi competes for the same food source and their antagonists.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 177 - 189
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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