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Biological Control of Insect Pests: Southeast Asian Prospects - EcoPort

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236 <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 />

Ophiomyia phaseoli (Tryon)<br />

Rating<br />

Origin<br />

Distribution<br />

Diptera: Agromyzidae (this species was earlier included in the<br />

genus Agromyza or Melanagromyza)<br />

bean fly<br />

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

+++ Indo +++ Guam<br />

14 ++ Laos, Viet, Msia,<br />

Phil<br />

9 ++ Fiji, PNG<br />

+ Myan, Thai, Sing + Sam, Sol Is<br />

P Brun P P FSM<br />

Unknown, but presumably in association with one <strong>of</strong> its current legume host<br />

genera in India or possibly <strong>Southeast</strong> Asia. It was described by Tryon (1895)<br />

from specimens causing damage to beans in 1888 in Queensland, Australia<br />

and, shortly after, reported to cause similar damage in New South Wales<br />

(Froggatt 1899).<br />

This was given (CIE 1974a) as Africa:<br />

Burundi, Congo (Zaire), Egypt,<br />

Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, RŽunion,<br />

Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,<br />

Zimbabwe; Asia:<br />

Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq,<br />

Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Ryukyu Is,<br />

Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand; Australia and Pacific Islands:<br />

Australia, Caroline Is, Fiji, Hawaii, Irian Jaya, Mariana Is, Papua New<br />

Guinea and Samoa. To the above must be added Israel (Spencer 1990)<br />

Brunei, Laos, Singapore (Waterhouse 1993b) and Japan (Makino et al.<br />

1990). It has not been recorded from Europe or the Americas.<br />

A morphologically very similar species, O. spencerella,<br />

only readily<br />

distinguishable from O. phaseoli by the male genitalia, occurs in association<br />

with it in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria on Phaseolus vulgaris and,<br />

less commonly, on several other legumes. There are 3 economically<br />

important agromyzid miners other than Ophiomyia phaseoli that attack<br />

much the same legumes in Asia. Melanagromyza (= Agromyza)<br />

obtusa is<br />

widely distributed in India as a pest <strong>of</strong> the developing seeds <strong>of</strong> chick and<br />

pigeon peas. The stem miners M. sojae and M. dolichostigma are pests <strong>of</strong><br />

soybean in Indonesia, Japan and Taiwan and damage French beans and<br />

cowpeas in Sri Lanka and East Africa (Singh and van Emden 1979).

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