%O                    We are grateful to the Commonwealth
InstItute of Entomology, London for IdentJfYIllg the para­
SitOIds

%A C S Pawar
%A V S Bhatnagar
%A D R Jadhav
%I International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya
%V 6
%L icrisat4957
%J Insect Science and its Application
%N 6
%P 701-704
%D 1985
%X A total of 9339 larvae of Heliothis peltigera and H. armigera were collected in fields of safflower, grown alone, and safflower intercropped with sorghum, wheat, chickpeas [Cicer arietinum], cowpeas [Vigna unguiculata], lentils, linseed [flax], sunflowers or chillies [Capsicum] in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, India, in November-January 1977-83. The hymenopterous parasites Campoletis chlorideae, Enicospilus sp., Eriborus argenteopilosus and Microchelonus curvimaculatus [Chelonus curvimaculatus] and the tachinids Carcelia illota, Goniophthalmus halli, Sturmiopsis inferens and Palexorista solennis were reared from both noctuids. A greater percentage of larvae of H. armigera were parasitized in fields of safflower on its own than in those that were intercropped, and a greater percentage of larvae of this host were parasitized than of H. peltigera.
%T Heliothis species and their larval parasitoids on sole and intercrop safflower in India.