Other pages on biological control include:
Conservation biological control for stored product insects
Natural enemies of Tribolium castaneum
Prevalence of naturally occurring natural enemies
Trichogramma natural enemies of stored-product insects
In addition to the 39 species of natural enemies of the potato tuber worm, Phthorimaea operculella, given in the Stored-Product Insect Resources book, the following 42 species have been reported in the literature to parasitize the potato tuber worm. Izhevskiy (1985) says that “It would be difficult to find another pest species whose entomophages were introduced into so many countries (more than 20) in such large scale (about 30 species)”.
Izhevskiy, S.S. 1985. Review of the parasites of the potato tuber moth Phthorimaea operculella Zell. (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Entomological Review 64: 148–160 gave the families and species:
Braconidae Apanteles dignus Muesebeck
Braconidae Apanteles gelechiidivoris Marsh
Braconidae Bracon brevicornis Wesmael
Braconidae Bracon cuyanus Blanchard
Braconidae Cardiochiles explorator (Say)
Braconidae Chelonus depressus Thompson
Braconidae Hormius pallidipes Ashmead
Braconidae Meteorus vulgaris Cresson
Braconidae Microplitis minutalis Muesebeck
Braconidae Orgilus mellipes Say
Braconidae Zele melleus Cresson
Eulophidae Sympiesis stigmatipennis Girault
Eulophidae Zagrammosoma flavolineata Crawford
Ichneumonidae Campoletis flavicincta Ashmead
Ichneumonidae Diadegma blackburni (Cameron)
Ichneumonidae Diadegma compressus Cresson
Ichneumonidae Diadegma fenestralis Holmgren
Ichneumonidae Diadegma insulare (Cresson)
Ichneumonidae Diadegma raoi Gupta
Ichneumonidae Diadegma surendrai Gupta
Ichneumonidae Itoplectis conquisitor Say
Ichneumonidae Nepiera fuscifemora Graf
Ichneumonidae Pimpla aequalis (Provancher)
Ichneumonidae Scambus hispae Harris
Ichneumonidae Temelucha minuta (Morley)
Perilampidae Perilampus fulvicornis Ashmead
Tachinidae Incamyia cuzcensis Townsend
Tachinidae Lixophaga diatraeae (Townsed)
Franzmann, B. A. 1980. Parasitism of Phthorimaea operculella (Lep.: Gelechiidae) larvae in Queensland. Entomophaga, 25(4): 369-372 gave the family and species:
Elasmidae Elasmus funereus Riek
Oatman, E. R. and G. R. Platner 1989. Parasites of the potato tuberworm, tomato pinworm, and other, closely related gelechiids. Proc. Hawaiian Entomol. Soc. 29: 23-30 gave the families and species:
Braconidae Agathis tandilensis Blanchard
Eulophidae Rhetisympiesis phthorimaeae Blanchard
Rondon, S. I. 2010. The potato tuberworm: a literature review of its biology, ecology, and control. American Journal of Potato Research, 87(2): 149-166 gave the family and species:
Ichneumonidae Temelucha decotate (Gravenhost)
Sankaran, T., and D.J. Girling. 1980. The current status of biological control of the potato tuber moth. Biocontrol News and Information 1: 207–211 gave the family and species:
Ichneumonidae Diadegma turcator Aubert
Ichneumonidae Eriborus trochanteratus (Morley)
The species included on the Trichogramma page of this website are:
Trichogrammatidae Trichogramma brasiliensis Ashmead
Trichogrammatidae Trichogramma cacoeciae Marchal
Trichogrammatidae Trichogramma chilonis Ishii
Trichogrammatidae Trichogramma evanescens Westwood
Trichogrammatidae Trichogramma nubilale Ertle and Davis
Trichogrammatidae Trichogramma pretiosum Riley
Trichogrammatidae Trichogramma principium Sugonjaev and Sorokina
Trichogrammatidae Trichogramma semblidis (Aurivillius)
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