First Report of Outbreaks of the Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J E Smith) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), a New Alien Invasive Pest in West and Central Africa

The fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is a prime noctuid pest of maize on the American continents where it has remained confined despite occasional interceptions by European quarantine services in recent years. The pest has currently become a new invasive species in West and Central Africa where outbreaks were recorded for the first time in early 2016. The presence of at least two distinct haplotypes within samples collected on maize in Nigeria and São Tomé suggests multiple introductions into the African continent. Implications of this new threat to the maize crop in tropical Africa are briefly discussed.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2016-10-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0165632PMID 27788251PMCID 5082806
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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