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Biological Control of Insect Pests: Southeast Asian Prospects - EcoPort

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158 <strong>Biological</strong> <strong>Control</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Insect</strong> <strong>Pests</strong>: <strong>Southeast</strong> <strong>Asian</strong> <strong>Prospects</strong><br />

Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari)<br />

Rating<br />

Origin<br />

Distribution<br />

Coleoptera: Scolytidae<br />

c<strong>of</strong>fee berry borer<br />

<strong>Southeast</strong> Asia Southern and Western Pacific<br />

+++ Phil +++ N Cal<br />

12 ++ Viet, Msia, Indo 7 ++ Fiji, Fr P<br />

+ Thai, Laos, Brun<br />

P Camb P Pohnpei, Saipan<br />

This account updates the chapter on H. hampei in Waterhouse and Norris<br />

(1989) and the valuable review <strong>of</strong> Murphy and Moore (1990) in relation to<br />

prospects for biological control.<br />

FerrariÕs specimens, described in 1867 under the generic name<br />

Stephanoderes,<br />

were obtained from trade c<strong>of</strong>fee beans in France. There<br />

appears to be no record <strong>of</strong> the country <strong>of</strong> origin <strong>of</strong> the material, but in 1867<br />

infested beans could only have come from Africa or Saudi Arabia, because<br />

Hypothenemus hampei did not obtain a footing on other continents until<br />

later. The seed used to establish C<strong>of</strong>fea arabica in Saudi Arabia was<br />

probably obtained from the Ethiopian highlands centuries ago. There the<br />

c<strong>of</strong>fee berry borer is native, though scarce (Davidson 1967), but if it did not<br />

accompany the original seed it could easily have reached Saudi Arabia<br />

through Arabian-African commerce over the centuries.<br />

The wider range <strong>of</strong> parasitoids (3) in West Africa than in East Africa (2,<br />

with one shared with the West) suggests that H. hampei has been in the West<br />

for a very long time and may indeed have evolved there (L.O. Brun pers.<br />

comm.).<br />

This was given by CIE (1981) as: Africa (Angola, Benin, Burundi,<br />

Cameroon, Canary Is, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia,<br />

Fernando Poo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia,<br />

Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Principe, Rio Muni, Rwanda, S‹o TomŽ,<br />

Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe);<br />

Middle East (Saudi Arabia), Asia (Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia,<br />

Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam); Central America (Guatemala,

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