Citation:

SR Singh. 1980. Biology of cowpea pests and potential for host plant resistance. Pages 398-421. In: Biology and Breeding for Resistance to Arthropods and Pathogens in Agricultural Plants. MK Harris (editor). The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas and University of California, Agency for International Development, Pest Management Project, Berkeley CA USA, 605 pages.

Keywords: Cowpeas, Vigna unguiculata, Chalcodermus aeneus,Empoasca kraemeri, Ootheca mutabilis, megalurothrips sjostedti, Maruca testulalis, Anaplocnemis curvipes, Riptortus dentipes, Acanthomia horrida, A. tomentosicollis, Aphis craccivora, Callosobruchus maculatus, Mylabris farquharsoni, M.

amplectens, M. postulata, M. ceylonica, Nezara viridula, Chalcodermus aeneus, damage, compensation, host plant resistance,