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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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• First records of Phytophthora spp. based on DNA analysis in Lithuania.
  Vitas, A.; Oszako, T.; Nowakowska, J. A.; Sikora, K.; Stankevičienė, A. (2012) Folia Forestalia Polonica. Series A, Forestry 54, 1, pp 25-31.
• Presence of Meloidogyne enterolobii Yang & Eisenback (=M. mayaguensis) in guava and acerola from Costa Rica.
  Humphreys, D. A.; Williamson, V. M.; Salazar, L.; Flores-Chaves, L.; Gómez-Alpizar, L. (2012) Nematology 14, 2, pp 199-207.
• New tropical fruit hosts of Scirtothrips dorsalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and its relative abundance on them in South Florida.
  Kumar, V.; Seal, D. R.; Kakkar, G.; McKenzie, C. L.; Osborne, L. S. (2012) Florida Entomologist 95, 1, pp 205-207.
• Disease distribution and characterisation of a new macluravirus associated with chirke disease of large cardamom.
  Mandal, B.; Vijayanandraj, S.; Shilpi, S.; Pun, K. B.; Singh, V.; Pant, R. P.; Jain, R. K.; Varadarasan, S.; Varma, A. (2012) Annals of Applied Biology 160, 3, pp 225-236.
• Molecular analysis of Spanish populations of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. dianthi demonstrates a high genetic diversity and identifies virulence groups in races 1 and 2 of the pathogen.
  Gómez-Lama Cabanás, C.; Valverde-Corredor, A.; Pérez-Artés, E. (2012) European Journal of Plant Pathology 132, 4, pp 561-576.
• Further characterization of tomato-infecting begomoviruses in Brazil.
  Albuquerque, L. C.; Varsani, A.; Fernandes, F. R.; Pinheiro, B.; Martin, D. P.; Ferreira, P. de T. O.; Lemos, T. O.; Inoue-Nagata, A. K. (2012) Archives of Virology 157, 4, pp 747-752.
• A new species of Lymantria (subgenus Nyctria) from China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae).
  Wang HouShuai; Kishida, Y.; Wang Min (2012) Florida Entomologist 95, 1, pp 25-27.
• New record of Aleurocanthus terminaliae on mango.
  Dharmendra Singh; Vennila, S.; Ramamurthy, V. V.; Ahuja, D. B.; Bambawale, O. M. (2012) Annals of Plant Protection Sciences 20, 1, pp 230-231.
• Records of two pest species, Leptoglossus zonatus (Heteroptera: Coreidae) and Pachycoris klugii (Heteroptera: Scutelleridae), feeding on the physic nut, Jatropha curcas, in Mexico.
  Tepole-García, R. E.; Pineda-Guillermo, S.; Martínez-Herrera, J.; Castrejón-Gómez, V. R. (2012) Florida Entomologist 95, 1, pp 208-210.
• Weed hosts of root-knot nematodes in tomato fields.
  Gharabadiyan, F.; Jamali, S.; Yazdi, A. A.; Hadizadeh, M. H.; Eskandari, A. (2012) Journal of Plant Protection Research 52, 2, pp 230-234.

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