Twenty commodities out of 77 were included in more than one of 66 surveys for arthropod infestation of commodities being sold in markets (maize (18), cowpea (8), rice (9), sorghum (7), bean (7), dried fish (4), millet (4), groundnut (4), pet food (3), yam flour (3), cashew (2), cassava chip (2), chillies (2), dates (3), dry dog food (2), figs (2), ginger (2), turmeric (2), wheat (2), yams (1), almond, apricots dried, Asafoetida, baby food, bambara nut, biscuit, black pepper, bread, cake, canary seed, cardemon, cassava, cassava flour, cereal, cheese, coriander, cottonseed, crude drug, dog food, dried binito flakes, dried cocoyam chip, dried mushroom, dried tomato, flax seed, green gram, Indian savory preparations, kola nut, lentil, melon, mixes, myrobalan, nutmeg, oat, peanut and milk confectionery, pea, pigeon pea, plums, raisin, ration for hog and birds, rice flour, safflower, sarson cake, sea tangle, sesame seed, sorghum drummondii seed, soybean meal, soybean paste, sugar, sunflower seed, tamarind, tobacco, Turkish dairy products (surk), walnut, wheat flour, wheat powder (suji), yam chips). Six were cereal grains (maize, millet, oat, rice, sorghum and wheat), 11 were grain products (baby food, biscuit, bread, cake, cereal, mixes, rice flour, soybean meal, soybean paste, wheat flour and wheat powder (suji)), 5 were dried fruits (apricot, dates, fig, plum and raisins), 9 were legumes (bambara nut, bean, cowpea, green gram, groundnut, lentil, pea, pigeon pea and soybean), 3 were nuts (almond, cashew and walnut), 7 were oil seeds (flax seed, groundnut, safflower, sarson cake, sesame seed, cottonseed and sunflower seed), 10 were seasonings (Asafoetida, black pepper, cardamon, chillies, coriander, dried tomato, ginger, Indian savory preparations, nutmeg and turmeric) and 27 were other commodities. More than one survey was done in six out of 20 countries (Nigeria (19), Brazil (12), India (7), Ghana (6), Benin (2), Malaysia (2), Australia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Czech Republic, Egyptian, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Togo, Turkey, United Kingdom, United State of America). The number of market surveys per decade increased from 2 to 6 to 10 to 10 to 12 to 20 between 1961-1970 and 2011-2020. The number of countries per decade increased from 2 to 11 over this period. Ten of these market surveys were cited on page 2 of Stored-Product Insect Resource book. Commodities (in bold) and insect or mite species are given in parenthenses after the reference for each market survey.
Only insects were reported in 47 of 59 surveys and 18 of the 57 insect species were reported in more than one survey (Tribolium castaneum (20), Rhyzopertha dominica (16), Sitophilus zeamais (14), Sitophilus oryzae (12), Lasioderma serricorne (10), Callosobruchus maculatus (9), Oryzaephilus surinanmensis (8), Araecerus fasciculatus (7), Trogoderma granarium (7), Dermestes maculatus (6), Necrobia rufipes (5), Corcyra cephalonica (4), Cryptolestes ferrugineus (6), Protesphanus truncatus (5), Dinoderus procellus (4), Sitophilus granarius (4), Sitotroga cerealella (4), Stegoblum paniceum (4), Tenebroides mauritanicus (4), Tribolium confusum (4), Cadra cautella (3), Anisopteromalus calandrae (2), Callosobruchus subinnotatus (2), Cryptolestes pusillus (2), Oryzaephilus mercator (2), Plodia interpunctella (2), Acanthoscelides obtectus, Ahasverus advena, Alphitobius laevigatus, Anthrenus verbasci, Balanogastris kolae, Brachypelus pilosellus, Bruchidius altrolineatus, Callosobruchus analis, Callosobruchus chinensis, Callosobruchus rhodesianus, Carpophilus dimidiatus, Carpophilus hemipterus, Caryedon serratus, Cathartus quadricollis, Cis asiaticus, Cis chinensis, Coccotrypes dactyliperda, Dinarmus basalis, Eupelmus vuilleti, Holepyris sylvanidis, Horismenus depressus, Horismenus missouriensis, Horismenus productus, Latheticus oryzae, Lophocateres pusillus, Necrobia ruficollis, Orthocis auriculariae, Sitophilus linearis, Sophrorhinus ghanjaensis, Sophrorhinus quadricristatus, Zabrotes subfasciatus). Six parasite species are in bold.
Only mite or spider species were reported in 8 of 59 surveys and 13 of the 32 mite or spider species were reported in more than one survey (Tyrophagus putrescentiae (8), Suidasia pontifica (7), Cheyletus malaccensis (5), Blattisocius tarsalis (4), Blattisocius keegani (3), Blomia tropicalis (3), Acarophenax tribolii (2), Acarus siro (2), Carpoglyphus lactis (2), Cheyletus fortis (2), Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (2), Glycyphagus domesticus (2), Tarsonemus granarius (2), Aleuroglyphus ovatus, Austroglycyphagus geniculatus, Austroglycyphagus malaysiensis, Blattisocius dentriticus, Blomia freemani, Caloglyphus hughesi, Caloglyphus oudemansi, Cheyletus eruditus, Chortoglyphus arcuatus, Dermatophagoides farinae, Grammolichus malukuensis, Ker bakeri, Kleemannia plumigera, Lardoglyphus konoi, Lepidoglyphus destructor, Rhizoglyphus callae, Suidasia nesbitti, Theridion saxatile (spider), Tyrophagus dimidiatus). Eight predator species are in bold. Four of 59 surveys included both insects and mites.
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Prakash, Anand and Jagadiswari Rao 1987. Damage due to Oryzaephilus surinamensis Linn. in stored milled rice. Bulletin of Grain Technology 25(3): 271–274. (Milled rice, Cryptolestes pusillus, Latheticus oryzae, Oryzaephilus surinamensis, Rhyzopertha dominica, Sitophilus oryzae, Tribolium castaneum)
Salisu, Z. I., S. J. Oniye, T. S. Anjorin, Y. A. Wada, M. Abubakar, and M. M. Abdulkarim 2021. Insect pests of dried date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) fruits sold in selected markets in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. Dutse Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences (DUJOPAS) 7(1): 232-241. (Dates, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (47.4%), Tribolium confusum (21.1%), Carpophilus hemipterus (7.9%)), Lexostege nudalis (10.5%), Aphthona whitefieldi (5.3%))
Seini, Seidu Shaibu 1998. A Search for Indigenous Parasitoids for the Control of the Larger Grain Borer, Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) Doctoral dissertation, University of Ghana. (Anisopteromalus calandrae and Dinarmus basalis associated respectively with Sitophilus zeamais in maize and Callosobruchus maculatus in cowpea were found to be the most abundant and most frequent in market samples. Callosobruchus maculatus also was parasitized by Eupelmus vuilleti in cowpeas. Holepyris sylvanidis (Brethes) (Hymenoptera.: Bethylidae) was associated with Tribolium castaneum in maize.)
Silva, Thiarles Tezolim and Fábio Medeiros da Costa. 2016. Survey of Insects that Attack Stored Bean Grains Vigna unguiculata (L.) and Phaseolus vulgaris L. in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. EntomoBrasilis 9(2): 124-128. (cowpea, beans, Acanthoscelides obtectus, Callosobruchus maculatus, Zabrotes subfasciatus)
Srinath, D. 1984. Pest infestation in export oriented spices and dry fruit. Plant Prot. Bull. 36 (2/3): 113-116. (black pepper, cashew, cardemon, chillies, coriander, ginger, mushroom, myrobalan, tamarind, tobacco, turmeric, walnut, Ahasverus advena, Araecerus fasciculatus, Cadra cautella, Caryedon serratus, Corcyra cephalonica, Cryptolestes pusillus, Lasioderma serricorne, Latheticus oryzae, Oryzaephilus surinamensis, Rhyzopertha dominica, Sitophilus linearis, Sitophilus oryzae, Stegobium paniceum, Tenebroides mauritanicus, Trogoderma granarium, Tribolium castaneum)
Srinath, D. and C. Prasad. 1975. Lasioderma serricorne F. as a major pest of stored turmeric. Bull. Grain Techn. 13: 170-171. (turmeric, Lasioderma serricorne)
Suleiman, M. 2016. Insect pest’s infestation of three stored grains in some markets of Katsina Metropolis, Nigeria. Journal of Zoological and Bioscience Research 3: 15-19. (cowpea, maize, sorghum, Callosobruchus maculatus, Sitophilus zeamais, Sitotroga cerealella, Tribolium castaneum)
Tazbian, Farhana 2016. Survey, Damage Assessment and Biology Study of Saw-Toothed Grain Beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis. MS thesis, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka. (cashew nut, almond, groundnut, nutmeg, dried dates, Oryzaephilus surinamensis)
Teixeira, David Lopes, Pedro Guilherme Lemes, Thiago Gomes dos Santos Braz, Germano Leão Demolin Leite, and José Cola Zanuncio. 2021. Rhyzopertha dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) infestation on seeds of Sorghum drummondii (Poaceae) in packages sold in retail stores. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 65(2), e20200129 (Sorghum drummondii seed, Rhyzopertha dominica)
Thangavelu, K. 1981. First report of Stegobium paniceum (L,) on some stored food products and notes on its biology. Bull. Grain Techn. 19(2): 150-152. (Asafoetida, green gram, rice, Stegobium paniceum)
Thind, B.B. and P.G. Clarke 2001. The Occurrence of Mites in Cereal-Based Foods Destined for Human Consumption and Possible Consequences of Infestation. Experimental & Applied Acarology 25(3): 203–215. (cereal-based food including baby food, bread, biscuits, cakes, cereal, flour and mixes, Acarus siro, Glycyphagus domesticus, Lepidoglyphus destructor, Tyrophagus putrescentiae)
Toh, Chung. 1998. Studies on pest insects of crude drugs. Korean J. Pharmacogn. 29(4): 365-373. (crude drugs, Anthrenus verbasci, Stegobium paniceum)
Yamamoto, Kikuzo 1963 On Acaridae in stored foodstuffs II. Acaridae in foodstuffs displayed at stores. Osaka Shiritsu Daigaku igaku zasshi 12(7-9): 253-264 (dried binito flakes, soybean paste, sugar, sea tangles, Tyrophagus dimidiatus and Carpoglyphus lactis dominant)
Zakka, U., N. E. S. Lale and V. C. Okereke. 2010. A survey of pests of stored ginger (Zingiber officinale (Rosc.)) in some selected markets in River State, Nigeria. African J. Agric. Res. 5: 2529-2534. (ginger, Cadra cautella, Lasioderma serricorne, Trogoderma granarium)
Additional References not included in tabulation
Abbasi, Ibrahim, Lamia Halaseh, Hisham M. Darwish, and Imad Matouk. 2021. Strategy for DNA extraction and detection from insect pests in stored home grain samples. Al-Quds University Journal for Academic Research 1(1): 24-32. (corn, groat, lentils, rice, wheat, corn flakes, chickpeas, cumin, sesame, barely, animal feed, Oryzaephilus spp., Plodia Interpunctella, Rhyzopertha dominica, Samea spp., Sitophilus spp.) from local wholesale grocery stores’
van Alebeek, F. A. N. 1996. Natural suppression of bruchid pests in stored cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) in West Africa. Int. J. Pest Manage. 42: 55-60. (Cowpea, Callosobruchus maculatus, Dinarmus spp., Eupelimus spp.)
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