NATURAL ENEMIES OF MAJOR INSECT PESTS IN SALALAH, SULTANATE OF OMAN | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research | ||
| Article 5, Volume 77, Issue 4, December 1999, Pages 1485-1492 PDF (2.11 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejar.1999.342092 | ||
| Authors | ||
| MOHAMED S. T. ABBAS1; MOHAMED M. A. HUBEIS2 | ||
| 1Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt | ||
| 2Agricultural Research Station, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A survey on natural enemies of major insect pests infesting vegetable and field crops as well as fruit trees and ornamentals was carried out during the period from March 1994 to February 1995 in Salalah. Such pests included four species of mealybugs; the wax scale, Ceroplastes rubens; the potato-tuber moth, Phtharimaea operculelfa, the sweet potato moth, Hydriris oratalis; the diamond-back moth, Plutella xybostella; the American bollworm, Heliothis armigera and the beet army-worm; Spodoptera exigua. Most of natural enemies obtained in this study are considered first record in Oman. These are about 13 parasitoid species of the familes Braconidae, Eulophidae, Encyrtidae, Aphelinidae and Tachinidae, and about 14 predatory species of the families Coccienellidae, Staphelinidae, Cecidomyiidae, Syrphidae, Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae, Anthocoridae, Geocoridae and Nabidae. | ||
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