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THE mirid Creontiades pallidus is widely distributed throughout the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; it is also recorded from Egypt and the Belgian Congo, where in both places it is a pest of cotton. Wilcox1 reports that no parasites or predators of C. pallidus were known to him in Egypt; while Madame Soyer2 found a geocorid bug to be the only predator of this mirid in the Congo. Since Soyer's paper, there appear to be no other references to the insects which attack C. pallidus.
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Wilcox, F. C., and Bahgat, Said, “Insects and Mites Injurious to the Cotton Plant” (Pub. Royal Agricultural Society of Egypt, 1937).
Soyer, D., “Miride du Cottonier, Creontiades pallidus, Ramb.”, I.N.E.A.C. Pub., Ser. Sci., No. 29, pp. 15.
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GOODMAN, A. A Predator on Creontiades pallidus, Ramb.. Nature 171, 886 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171886a0
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