This month’s pest alerts include a report on 8 new species of weevil (Curculionidae) in Saudi Arabia (© Pexels)
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 first report of Trochoideus desjardinsi in Cuba. 8 new records of Curculionidae in Saudi Arabia and 3 new species of aphids in China.
- Localities of flower chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) in the Palestinian Territories (West Bank). Handal, E. N.; Amr, Z. S. (2018) Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences (JJBS) 11 (4) 389-393.
- A new host and distribution record for the black coccinellid, Stethorus aptus Kapur (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera). Mahendiran Govindasamy; Sheikh Khursheed (2018) Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control 28 (53) (27 June 2018).
- Three species of aphids new to China from Beijing Botanic Garden (Hemiptera, Aphididae). Yu GuoYue; Zhou DaKang; Wang He (2018) Journal of Environmental Entomology 40 (3) 601-606.
- Ceroplastes cirripediformis Comstock: a new invasive pest in China (Hemiptera: Coccormorpha: Coccidae). Li Ge; Wang XuBo; Wu SanAn (2018) Chinese Journal of Applied Entomology 55 (3) 527-532.
- Epizootics of the entomopathogenic fungus, Entomophaga grylli (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae), in a grasshopper population in Northwest China. Zhang LiWei; Zhang PengFei; Zhang Long (2018) Biocontrol Science and Technology 28 (9) 848-857.
- First record of a specialist folivore of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) in Togo, and indices of its range expansion in Nigeria: implications for biological control. Aigbedion-Atalor, P. O.; Idemudia, I.; Adom, M.; Day, M. (2018) Biocontrol Science and Technology 28 (8) 805-810.
- New records of Curculionidae (Coleoptera) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Rezk, M. H. (2018) Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) 625-628.
- The Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Krasnoyarsk Krai (except for the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky district), Siberia, Russia. Guskova, E. V.; Akulov, E. N.; Loshchev, S. M. (2018) Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) 565-576.
- A new species of the seed beetle genus Megacerus Fǻhraeus, 1839 (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) and redescription of Megacerus centralis (Pic), with a key to the Mexican species and new host and distribution records. Nápoles, J. R. (2018) Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) 531-540.
- First record of Trochoideus desjardinsi Guérin-Méneville, 1838 (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Pleganophorinae) from Cuba. Shockley, F. W.; Kovalenko, Y. N. (2018) Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) 500-502.
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