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Table 2 Medicinal products from insects

From: Indigenous knowledge system associated with the uses of insects for therapeutic or medicinal purposes in two main provinces of Burkina Faso, West Africa

Number of citations

Insects/groups

Order

Honey

Beeswax

Nests

Materials impacted

Trinervitermes sp.

Macrotermes sp.

Nasutitermes sp.

Blattodea

0

0

7

0

0

0

33

0

0

0

1

0

Apis mellifera

Pachycondyla sp.

Tetramorium sp.

Sceliphron sp.

Vespula vulgaris

Hymenoptera

98

27

0

0

0

0

14

1

0

0

18

0

0

0

22

0

0

0

4

0

Scarabaeus laticollis

Cerambycidae

Coleoptera

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

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