| Table
7. |
Principal
Lepidopteran Pests in the Major Cotton-Producing Countries
of the World |
|
| Common
Name |
Scientific
Name |
#
Countries requiring control
|
Most
injurious insect pests in major cotton producing countries
|
|
USA
|
Mexico
|
Brazil
|
Egypt
|
Turkey
|
CIS1
|
Pakistan
|
India
|
China
|
Aus
|
| American bollworm |
Helicoverpa
armigera |
24
|
|
|
|
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
| Australian
bollworm |
Helicoverpa
punctigera |
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
X
|
| Bollworm |
Helicoverpa
zea |
7
|
X
|
X
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cutworms |
Agrotis
spp. And others |
16
|
X
|
|
|
|
|
X
|
|
|
|
|
| Egyptian
cotton leafworm |
Spodoptera
literoralis |
6
|
|
|
|
X
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Pink
bollworm |
Pectinophora
gossypiekka |
26
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
| Spiny
bollworm |
Earias
spp. |
19
|
|
|
|
|
X
|
|
X
|
X
|
|
|
| Tobacco
budworm |
Heliothis
virescens |
4
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Source: |
Modified
from Benedict and Altman, 2001. Data reproduced with permission
o authors, J. H. Benedict and D. W. Altman from the chapter "Commercialization
of Transgenic Cotton Expressing Insecticidal Crystal Protein" pp.
137-201 in J.J. Jenkins and S. Saha (ed) Genetic Improvement
of Cotton: Emerging Technologies. Published by Science Publications,
Enfield, N.H., USA. |
| |
1
Commonwealth of Independent States, Uzbekistan and other
Central Asian States |
| |
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