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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.

• First report of Agathis fuscipennis in Europe as parasitoid of the tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta.
  Loni, A.; Rossi, E.; Achterberg, K. van (2011) Bulletin of Insectology 64 (1), 115-117.
• Eupteryx cytinsularis, a new species of the melissae group (Rhynchota Auchenorrhyncha Cicadellidae) from Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.
  Guglielmino, A.; Lauterer, P.; Bückle, C. (2011) Bulletin of Insectology 64 (1), 23-26.
• Oligonychus afrasiaticus and phytoseiid predators’ seasonal occurrence on date palm Phoenix dactylifera (Deglet Noor cultivar) in Tunisian oases.
  Ben Chaaban, S.; Chermiti, B.; Kreiter, S. (2011) Bulletin of Insectology 64 (1), 15-21.
• Systematics and biology of the new genus Macrosaccus with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae).
  Davis, D. R.; Prins, J. de (2011) Zookeys 98, 29-82.
• First occurrence of fire blight on apricot (Prunus armeniaca) in Czech Republic.
  Korba, J.; Sillerova, J.; Sobiczewski, P.; Kaluzna, M.; Pulawska, J. (2011) Acta Horticulturae 896, 289-292.
• Dynamic population, hosts plants, distribution and identification key for Platypodinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) associated with the cacao agroecosystem in Tabasco, Mexico.
  Pérez de la Cruz, M.; Valdéz Carrasco, J. M.; Nápoles, J. R.; Equihua Martínez, A.; Sánchez Soto, S.; Cruz Pérez, A. de la (2011) Acta Zoologica Mexicana 27 (1), 129-143.
• Record of Plagiometriona clavata (Fabricius 1798) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on wild chili Capsicum annuum, of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
  Tejas, R. A.; Servín, R.; Nieto-Garibay, A.; Marín, A. (2011) Acta Zoologica Mexicana 27 (1), 201-205.
• Three new species of Cecidophyinae (Acari: Eriophyidae) from China.
  Xue XiaoFeng; Song ZiWei; Hong XiaoYue (2011) Journal of Natural History 45 (17/20), 1199-1211.
• Review of the genus Orizabus Fairmaire in the United States of America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae).
  Warner, W. B. (2011) Insecta Mundi 0174, 1-42.
• New species of the weevil genus Pseudorchestes (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Central Palaearctic.
  Korotyaev, B. A. (2011) Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 90 (2), 243-248.

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