Spodoptera frugiperda(LAPHFR)
Distribution details in Philippines
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated
2023: Present, widespread
First recorded in: 2019
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present: at low prevalence (2019-10)
First recorded in: 2019
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present: at low prevalence (2019-10)
EPPO Reporting Service (2019/236) : first found in June 2019 in Cagayan province (Luzon). Then found in other localities on maize crops (total infested area estimated at 224 ha). Under official control.
* IPPC website. Official Pest Reports – Philippines (PHL-02/1 of 2019-10-28) Report of first detection of fall army worm (FAW) in the Republic of the Philippines. https://www.ippc.int/en/countries/philippines/pestreports/2019/10/report-of-first-detection-of-fall-army-worm-faw-in-the-republic-of-the-philippines/
* Navasero MV, Navasero MM, Burgonio GAS, Ardez KP, Ebuenga MD, Beltran MJB, Bato MB, Gonzales PG, Magsino GL, Caoili BL, Barrion-Dupo ALA, Aquino MFGM (2019) Detection of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiferda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) using larval morphological characters, and observations on its current local distribution in the Philippines. The Philippine Entomology 33(2), 171-184.
* Valdez EM, Joshi RC, Rillon GS, Donayre DKM, Martin EC, dela Cruz KB, Sandoval FR, Quilang EJP, Aquino MF, Mariano J, Pascual MK, Faheem M, Annamalai S (2023) Rice: a new host of fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) and its strains in the Philippines. Insect Environment 26(2), 129-136.
------- First recorded on maize in June 2019 in Piat, Cagayan Valley region, it then spread to all regions of the Philippines. First attacks on rice recorded in 2021.
* Navasero MV, Navasero MM, Burgonio GAS, Ardez KP, Ebuenga MD, Beltran MJB, Bato MB, Gonzales PG, Magsino GL, Caoili BL, Barrion-Dupo ALA, Aquino MFGM (2019) Detection of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiferda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) using larval morphological characters, and observations on its current local distribution in the Philippines. The Philippine Entomology 33(2), 171-184.
* Valdez EM, Joshi RC, Rillon GS, Donayre DKM, Martin EC, dela Cruz KB, Sandoval FR, Quilang EJP, Aquino MF, Mariano J, Pascual MK, Faheem M, Annamalai S (2023) Rice: a new host of fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) and its strains in the Philippines. Insect Environment 26(2), 129-136.
------- First recorded on maize in June 2019 in Piat, Cagayan Valley region, it then spread to all regions of the Philippines. First attacks on rice recorded in 2021.