Marching across and beyond West Africa: First record of the stem-galling fly Cecidochares connexa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Central Africa and the implications for biological control of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae)

• Pascal O. Aigbedion-Atalor ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pascalatalor1@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Centre for Biological Control, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa, African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7210-0885

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• Itohan Idemudia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Medetissi Adom,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Ethelyn E. Forchibe,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Hospice Tossou,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• David D. Wilson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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• Michael D. Day

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

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