Mango insect pest management.
Srivastava R. P.
: 272 pp.
Abstract : The 22 chapters of this book provide information on the pests which attack mango. Each chapter discusses the taxonomy and geographical distribution of the pest, losses caused and nature of damage, alternate hosts, bionomics and life history, control measures, including biological predators, parasitoids and pathogens, plant products, pesticides and cultural methods, and integrated pest management. The pests covered are mango hoppers (Idioscopus, Amritodus, Amrasca), mango mealybug (Drosicha mangiferae, Perissopneumon ferox), mango gall midges (Erosomyia indica, Dasineura amaramanjarae, Procystiphora mangiferae, Amradiplosis allahabadensis, Procontarinia), mango shoot gall psylla (Apsylla cistellata, Pauropsylla brevicornis), fruit flies (Bactrocera, Ceratitis capitata, Anastrepha), fruit-sucking moths (Eudocima, Achaea), fruit borers, thrips, ants [Formicidae], termites [Isoptera], grey weevil (Myllocerus), flea weevil (Rhynchaenus mangiferae), leaf-cutting weevil (Deporaus (Eugnamptus) marginatus), aphids, stone weevil (Sternochetus), leaf-eating caterpillars, shoot borers, leaf miners (Acrocercops), bark-eating caterpillars (Indarbela quadrinotata), stem borers (Batocera), coccids and mango leaf webbers (Orthaga, Lamida carbonifera).