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Soil pests of groundnut in West Africa - species diversity, damage and estimation of yield losses

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Title Soil pests of groundnut in West Africa - species diversity, damage and estimation of yield losses
 
Creator Umeh, V C
Waliyar, F
Traoré, S
Egwurube, E
 
Subject Groundnut
 
Description Among the major arthropods in soil and plant samples taken from groundnut farms during the 1996 cropping season in Mali, Burkina-Faso, Niger, and Nigeria, termites in the genus Microtermes (Isoptera: Termitidae) were the most abundant and widely distributed species of economic importance. None of the termite species identified on trees in the surveyed farms attacked groundnuts. At plant maturity, termites were less frequently observed in soils taken from bare ground but were predominantly found on plants. Residues of previous cereal crops in the fields contributed to termite spread. Most of the whitegrub (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and millipede (Myriapoda: Odontopygidae) species identified belonged to the genera of Schyzonycha and Peridontopyge, respectively. There was a general decrease in both their population densities and the percentages of farms they infested at plant maturity compared to the early stages of the crop. Mean percentages of plants attacked by termites, whitegrubs and millipedes in the surveyed groundnut fields were 39.4, 10.9, and 9.3%, respectively. Yield loss due to termites, which predominantly damaged harvested kernels, was estimated at 9.6-30.4%, and was significantly correlated with percentage of plants damaged by termites (r²=0.73)
 
Publisher International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Date 1999
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4946/1/Insect%20Sci.%20Appllc_19_2%263_131-140_1999.pdf
Umeh, V C and Waliyar, F and Traoré, S and Egwurube, E (1999) Soil pests of groundnut in West Africa - species diversity, damage and estimation of yield losses. Insect Science and its Application, 19 (2-3). pp. 131-140. ISSN 0191-9040