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The blackfly, Aleurocanthus terminaliae, has been found for the first time on mango © V R Kiran (CC BY-SA 3.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons)

We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Records this fortnight include the blight disease, Phytophthora, reported for the first time in Lithuania; the first record of blackfly on mango in India; and a new species of Lymantria moth in China.

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