Description and phylogenetic placement of #Beauveria hoplocheli# sp. nov. used in the biological control of the sugarcane white grub, #Hoplochelus marginalis#, on Reunion Island

Robène-Soustrade I., Jouen E., Pastou D., Payet-Hoarau M., Goble T., Linderme D., Lefeuvre P., Calmes C., Reynaud B., Nibouche S., Costet L.
2015

On Reunion Island successful biological control of the sugarcane white grub Hoplochelus marginalis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) has been conducted for decades with strains from the entomopathogenic fungal genus Beauveria (Ascomycota: Hypocreales). A study based on morphological characters combined with a multisequence phylogenetic analysis of genes that encode the translation elongation ...

Ravageurs des plantes