Claim · model-written summary
Acarus siro was identified as a quarantine mite of dried cassava chips in Nigeria.
- Taxon
- Acarus siro
Acarus siroe0 - Interactor
- cassava
Manihot esculentae0host - Outcome
- quarantine significancee0
- Setting
- Nigeriae0
Verbatim
e0“Trogoderma granarium (Everts), Sitophilus granaries (L), Sitophilus zeamais (Motschulsky), Cryptolestes ferruginensis (Stephens), Ploidia interpunctella (Hubner), Lasioderma serricome (Fabricius) and Acarus siro were found to be insect pests and mite of quarantine significance to dried cassava chips in Nigeria.”
Title
A. A. Obadofin; Abiodun Oladipupo Joda; J. A. Oluitan 2013
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Samples of dried cassava and yam products contained twelve insect pest species and one mite.
- Association Insect pest population on Benin Republic consignments was significantly higher than on Nigerian consignments.
- Observation Trogoderma granarium was identified as a quarantine pest of dried cassava chips in Nigeria.
- Observation Sitophilus granaries was identified as a quarantine pest of dried cassava chips in Nigeria.
- Observation Sitophilus zeamais was identified as a quarantine pest of dried cassava chips in Nigeria.
- Observation Cryptolestes ferruginensis was identified as a quarantine pest of dried cassava chips in Nigeria.
- Observation Ploidia interpunctella was identified as a quarantine pest of dried cassava chips in Nigeria.
- Observation Lasioderma serricome was identified as a quarantine pest of dried cassava chips in Nigeria.