Banana (Musa spp.)-an unseen umbrella crop? Insect diversity on Musa spp. in the Indo-Pacific region

Krishnan, JU and Jayaprakas, CA and Harish, ER and Rajeswari, LS (2020) Banana (Musa spp.)-an unseen umbrella crop? Insect diversity on Musa spp. in the Indo-Pacific region. In: Oriental Insects, 54 (3). pp. 433-445.

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Abstract

With the help of life table construction, which derives the net-reproductive rate, mean time of generation and the survivorship curve, one can classify the insects into pest or as non-pest. This paper is an attempt to bring diversity information of the general pest and non-pest group of insects on Musa spp. to a broader audience and examine it in the context of related research. Pests on Musa spp. (banana and plantain) can cause serious damage to its fruit (scales, thrips, aphids, caterpillars, beetles and fruit flies), leaf (grasshoppers, aphids, lacewings, mites, scales, thrips, moths/caterpillars, bugs and whiteflies), pseudostem (weevils and lepidopteran stalk borers), rhizome (beetles, weevils, mealybugs and termites), and can transmit important plant pathogens (aphids transmit banana bunchy top virus; mealybugs and whiteflies favour the growth of ascomycetes fungi). The non-pest group of insects associated with Musa spp. are, generally some of the honeybees and ants. In the current study, among the major group of insects associated with Musa spp. of Indo-Pacific region (93 species of pests and 25 species of non-pests) the most common ones are described and discussed on their ‘pest’ status. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Oriental Insects
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Inc.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Taylor and Francis Inc.
Keywords:	banana pest checklist; insect associates on Musa spp; non-pest insects in banana; Pest diversity
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences
Date Deposited:	03 Feb 2023 05:16
Last Modified:	03 Feb 2023 05:16
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/79832

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