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The buff coconut mealybug damages palms by sucking their sap; its range is expanding in the Philippines © Sam Fraser-Smith (CC BY 2.0 license)

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 a new bacterial pathogen of soyabean, the spread of the buff coconut mealybug to new locations and new host plants in the Philippines, and two new parasitic nematode species found in India.

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• A remarkable new genus of stiletto flies from Egypt, with a key to Palaearctic genera of Phycinae (Diptera, Therevidae).
  Winterton, S. L.; Hauser, M.; Badrawy, H. B. M. (2012) ZooKeys 184, 35-45.
• New records of Tenebrioninae and Pimeliinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Turkey.
  Canpolat, D.; Hasbenli̇, A. (2012) Journal of the Entomological Research Society 14 (1) 15-20.
• Myrtlemiris, a new genus and new species of Australian plant bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae): systematics, phylogeny and host associations.
  Cheng, M.; Mututantri, A.; Cassis, G. (2012) Systematic Entomology 37 (2) 305-331.
• A new pest on almond tree, the soft scale Didesmococcus unifasciatus (Archangelskaya) (Hemiptera: Coccidae) and its new records parasitoids, Turkey.
  Bolu, H. (2012) Journal of the Entomological Research Society 14 (1) 107-114.
• Euzophera bigella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and Dasineura oleae (F. Low) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae): emerging olive crop pests in the Mediterranean?
  Simoglou, K. B.; Karataraki, A.; Roditakis, N. E.; Roditakis, E. (2012) Journal of Pest Science 85 (2) 169-177.
• Malva sylvestris, new host of Puccinia heterospora in Brazil.
  Melo, M. P.; Carvalho Júnior, A. A.; Santos, P. C. M.; Lima, C. S. (2012) Tropical Plant Pathology 37 (1) 80-82.
• A Pseudomonas viridiflava-related bacterium causes a dark-reddish spot disease in glycine max.
  González, A. J.; Fernández, A. M.; San José, M.; González-Varela, G.; Rodicio, M. R. (2012) Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78 (10) 3756-3758.
• Expansion of local geographic and host ranges of Nipaecoccus nipae (Maskell) (Pseudococcidae, Hemiptera) in the Philippines with new records of predators and attending ants.
  Caasi-Lit, M. T.; Lit, I. L., Jr.; Larona, A. R. (2012) Philippine Journal of Crop Science 37 (1) 47-56.
• New distribution record of Cybocephalus kathrynae (Coleoptera, Cybocephalidae) on Mona Island, Puerto Rico.
  Curbelo-Rodríguez, J. C.; Meléndez-Ackerman, E. J.; Rojas-Sandoval, J.; Segarra-Carmona, A. (2012) Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 56 (1) 119-121.
• Two new species of Aphelenchoides (Nematoda: Aphelenchida: Aphelenchoidea: Aphelenchidae) from Manipur, India.
  Chanu, L. B.; Mohilal, N.; Shah, M. M. (2012) Biologia (Bratislava) 67 (3) 530-534.

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