A deadly encounter: Alien invasive Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa and indigenous natural enemy, Cotesia icipe (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

• Samira Abuelgasim Mohamed ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sfaris@icipe.org

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7714-2697

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• Mark Wamalwa,

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

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Francis Obala,

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

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Henri E. Z. Tonnang,

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

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Tadele Tefera,

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

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Paul-Andre Calatayud,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Sevgan Subramanian ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ Senior authors that contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4447-0744

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• Sunday Ekesi

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ Senior authors that contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Nairobi, Kenya

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