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We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Click on the links to view the abstracts.

• Fusarium tricinctum associated with head blight on wheat in Argentina.
  Castañares, E.; Stenglein, S. A.; Dinolfo, M. I.; Moreno, M. V. (2011) Plant Disease 95 (4), 496.
• First report of target spot of tobacco caused by Rhizoctonia solani (AG-3) in Massachusetts.
  LaMondia, J. A.; Vossbrinck, C. R. (2011) Plant Disease 95 (4), 496.
• First record of the agave snout weevil, Scyphophorus acupunctatus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), in Puerto Rico.
  Setliff, G. P.; Anderson, J. A. (2011) Insecta Mundi 0152, 1-3.
• First report of soybean witches’-broom disease caused by group 16SrII phytoplasma in soybean in Malawi and Mozambique.
  Kumar, P. L.; Sharma, K.; Boahen, S.; Tefera, H.; Tamò, M. (2011) Plant Disease 95 (4), 492-493.
• First record of the adventive oriental aphid Schizaphis piricola (Matsumura, 1917) (Hemiptera, Aphididae) in Europe.
  Pérez Hidalgo, N.; Umaran, Á.; Mier Durante, M. P. (2011) Zookeys 89, 41-48.
• Newly discovered natural hosts of Tomato chlorosis virus in Costa Rica.
  Solórzano-Morales, A.; Barboza, N.; Hernández, E.; Mora-Umaña, F.; Ramírez, P.; Hammond, R. W. (2011) Plant Disease 95 (4), 497.
• First report of a Brugmansia sp. infected by Tomato apical stunt viroid in Belgium.
  Olivier, T.; Demonty, E.; Govers, J.; Belkheir, K.; Steyer, S.; Jongen, C. (2011) Plant Disease 95 (4), 495.
• Morphological and molecular characterization of Phytophthora glovera sp. nov. from tobacco in Brazil.
  Abad, Z. G.; Ivors, K. L.; Gallup, C. A.; Abad, J. A.; Shew, H. D. (2011) Mycologia 103 (2), 341-350.
• Adaina ipomoeae Bigot and Etienne, 2009, new records for Florida and the West Indies (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae).
  Matthews, D. L.; Gielis, C. (2011) Insecta Mundi 0156, 1-3.
• Taxonomy and biology of two seed-parasitic gracillariid moths (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae), with description of a new species.
  Hu BingBing; Wang ShuXia; Zhang Jing; Li HouHun (2011) Zookeys 83, 43-56.

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