The fall armyworm strain associated with most rice, millet, and pasture infestations in the Western Hemisphere is rare or absent in Ghana and Togo

• Rodney N. Nagoshi ,

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

  * E-mail: rodney.nagoshi@usda.gov

  Affiliation Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4881-4014

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• Djima Koffi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo

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• Komi Agboka,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo

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• Anani Kossi Mawuko Adjevi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo

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• Robert L. Meagher,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2769-1043

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• Georg Goergen

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Cotonou, Benin

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-0495

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