Meet the editor

Hamadttu Abdel Farag El-Shafie is Associate Professor of Entomology and Senior Research Entomologist at the Date Palm Research Center of Excellence, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He is also head of the IPM research program at the same researcher center. Dr. El-Shafie obtained his BSc and MSc from the University of Khartoum Sudan in 1988 and 1993, respectively. He received his PhD from the University of Giessen, Germa-

ny, in 2001. In 2008, he was appointed head of the Crop Protection Department, and then deputy dean for academic affairs at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum. He supervised twenty-five MSc students and five PhD students at the University of Khartoum. His research interests focus on management of field crop pests using neem biopesticides and semiochemicals. Dr. El-Shafie has more than ten years' experience in management of the invasive red palm weevil and other date palm pests. He has published sixty research papers in international peer-reviewed journals and fourteen book chapters with international publishers such as Springer, John Wiley & Sons, and IntechOpen, in addition to more than twenty-five international conferences in the field of entomology. During the last ten years, he has been reviewing manuscripts for thirty renowned international journals.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface XI**

Invasive Insect Species **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 33**

**Chapter 3 49**

**Chapter 4 65**

**Chapter 5 77**

Invasive Plant Species **93**

**Chapter 6 95**

Red Palm Weevil *Rhynchophorus ferrugineus* (Coleoptera:

*by Hamadttu Abdel Farag El-Shafie and Jose Romeno Faleiro*

Recent Trends in the Early Detection of the Invasive Red

Palm Weevil, *Rhynchophorus ferrugineus* (Olivier) *by Maged E.A. Mohammed, Hamadttu A.F. El-Shafie* 

*by Swoyam Singh, Jai Hind Sharma, Avinash Udikeri* 

Chilean Case and Its First Productive Impacts

The Spotted Wing Drosophila in the South of the World:

Insect Pest Threatening the World Tomato Production

Hybridogenic Activity of Invasive Species of Asteraceae

*by Maria A. Galkina and Yulia K. Vinogradova*

*Tuta absoluta* (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae): An Invasive

Challenges and Future Prospects

*and Mohammed R. Alhajhoj*

Invasive Insects in India

*by Karina Buzzetti Morales*

*by Hamadttu Abdel Farag El-Shafie*

*and Hashib Ansari*

**Section 2**

Curculionidae): Global Invasion, Current Management Options,
