New records of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) from Spain

Beltrà, Aleixandre; Soto, Antonia

doi:10.1007/s12600-011-0178-0

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“…This species has been reported from South America, Australia, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barbados, United States (Florida, California, and Hawaii), and Puerto Rico ( McFadyen and Tomley 1978 , 1981, Tomley and McFadyen 1984 , Hosking et al 1988 , Moran and Zimmermann 1991 , Halbert 1996 , Klein 1999 , Mazzeo et al 2008 , Hodges and Hodges 2009 , Zimmermann and Pérez Sandi y Cuen 2010 , Beltrà and Soto 2011 ). Although it is not known how H. pungens colonized areas where it was not deliberately released, it is suspected that it was introduced via the trade of ornamental cacti ( Zimmermann and Pérez Sandi y Cuen 2010 ).…”

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Studies on the Biology ofHypogeococcus pungens(sensu stricto) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Argentina to Aid the Identification of the Mealybug Pest of Cactaceae in Puerto Rico

Aguirre¹,

Díaz‐Soltero²,

Claps³

et al. 2016

J Insect Sci

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Hypogeococcus pungens Granara de Willink, sensu stricto, is a serious pest of cacti in Puerto Rico threating many Caribbean islands. A classical biological control program for H. pungens was initiated for Puerto Rico in 2010 with a survey for natural enemies of H. pungens in its native range of Argentina. Biological differences were observed between populations of H. pungens sampled on Amaranthaceae and Cactaceae. Molecular studies suggested that H. pungens populations from different host plant families are likely a complex of species. Our objective was to study the biology of H. pungens sensu stricto on specimens collected in the same locality and host plant as the holotype [Tucumán Province, Argentina; Alternanthera pungens Kunth (Amaranthaceae)]. We were interested in the reproductive biology of females, longevity and survival of adults, the effect of temperature on the development, and nymph performance (survival and development) on five Cactaceae species. We found that H. pungens s.s. showed marked biological differences from the populations collected on Cactaceae and exported to Australia for the biological control of the cactus Harrisia spp. The main differences were the presence of deuterotoky parthenogenesis and the fact that H. pungens did not attack Cactaceae in the laboratory. Our results provide biological evidence that H. pungens is a species complex. We propose that the population introduced to Australia is neither Hypogeococcus festerianus Lizer y Trelles nor H. pungens, but an undescribed species with three circuli, and that the Hypogeococcus pest of cacti in Puerto Rico is not H. pungens.

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Studies on the Biology ofHypogeococcus pungens(sensu stricto) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Argentina to Aid the Identification of the Mealybug Pest of Cactaceae in Puerto Rico

Aguirre¹,

Díaz‐Soltero²,

Claps³

et al. 2016

J Insect Sci

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“…The host plants used by the Harrisia cactus mealybug introduced as a biological control agent into Australia and South Africa consist only of species in Cactoideae (Zimmermann & Pérez Sandi y Cuen 2010;McFadyen 2012;. In addition to these 2 countries, the distribution of H. pungens has expanded, due to inadvertent introductions from its apparently native South America, to locations in Italy, Spain, US Virgin Islands, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the USA states of Florida, California, and Hawaii (Hosking et al 1988;Halbert 1996;Mazzeo et al 2008;Hodges & Hodges 2009;Zimmermann & Pérez Sandi y Cuen 2010;Beltrà & Soto 2011;German-Ramirez et al 2014). The host range of the Harrisia cactus mealybug identified as H. pungens includes species of plants in the families Cactaceae, Amaranthaceae, and Portulacaceae (Ben-Dov 1994;Claps & de Haro 2001;Hodges & Hodges 2009).…”

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Complex of Primary and Secondary Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae and Signiphoridae) ofHypogeococcusspp. Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in the New World

Triapitsyn

Aguirre²,

Logarzo³

et al. 2018

Florida Entomologist

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Parasitoids, both primary and secondary (hyperparasitoids), of Hypogeococcus spp. mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) are reviewed to report results of the surveys in the New World conducted during 2009 to 2017 for prospective natural enemies of the Harrisia cactus mealybug, Hypogeococcus sp., which is devastating native cacti in Puerto Rico and threatening cacti in the adjacent Caribbean islands. Five species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) are recorded as primary parasitoids of Hypogeococcus spp., including the newly described Leptomastidea hypogeococci Triapitsyn sp. n., which is the only species of the genus Leptomastidea García Mercet in the New World where the clava of the female antenna is contrastingly white. Genetic analysis of the individuals of L. hypogeococci from Argentina, Brazil, and Puerto Rico (USA) corroborates the morphological data that the same species occurs in South America, the Caribbean islands, and Florida (USA). A key to the New World species of Leptomastidea is given and taxonomic notes are provided on its other known species in the Neotropical region. Leptomastidea antillicola Dozier, syn. n. from Puerto Rico is synonymized under L. abnormis (Girault). Based on the presented molecular data, Anagyrus ciomperliki Triapitsyn syn. n. (Encyrtidae), originally described from Puerto Rico, is synonymized under A. quilmes Triapitsyn, Logarzo & Aguirre, where the known distributional range is expanded to also include Brazil. Anagyrus cachamai Triapitsyn, Logarzo & Aguirre, A. lapachosus Triapitsyn, Aguirre & Logarzo, and A. quilmes are newly recorded from Paraguay. The previously unknown male of Prochiloneurus argentinensis (De Santis) (Encyrtidae) is described from Misiones Province of Argentina, and that of P. narendrani Noyes & Triapitsyn is described from Mona Island, Puerto Rico. So far, Anagyrus cachamai and A. lapachosus are considered to be the primary target species for introduction from Argentina and Paraguay into Puerto Rico for the biological control of Harrisia cactus mealybug. The holotype of Anagyrus tanystis De Santis from Buenos Aires, Argentina, host associations are unknown, and is illustrated to facilitate its recognition from other congeneric species.

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“…Identified for the Madeira mealybug Phenacoccus madeirensis Green, (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) by Bader and Moharum (2017), was the first time in Egypt. This species was recorded in Italy by Marotta & Tranfaglia (1990) and more recently in France (Matile-Ferrero & Germain, 2004), Mediterranean region (Williams, 2004) Crete (Jansen et al, 2010), Portugal (Franco et al, 2011),Spain (Beltra & Soto, 2011), mainland Greece (Papadopoulou & Chryssohoides, 2012), Turkey (Kaydan et al, 2012), and Tunisia (Halima-Kamel et al, 2014). reported that it is could be Neotropical in origin and has now invaded parts of the Afrotropical, Neotropical, Nearctic, Australasian and Oriental Zoogeographical Regions.…”

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Life Table Parameters, Thermal-Requirements and Development Rate of the Madeira Mealybug Phenacoccus madeirensis Green, (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

Moharum

El-Mageed

2018

Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology

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This study of life table parameters, thermal-requirements and development rate of Phenacoccus madeirensis Green, (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) reared at 20, 25 and 30°C in department of scale insects and mealybugs laboratory, Plant Protection Research Institute. The main longevity eggs, nymphs,adult female and male development From 20°C to 30°C, greater temperature significantly shortened the period on development regarding every developmental stage. The low aggregate length about nymphal development of females was once 20.65, 28.95 and 47.85 days of 20, 25 and 30°C, respectively. Immature stage about females required a short length (between two or three days) for development than Immature stage males within 20°C in conformity with 30°C. Thehighest percentage on hatching at 25 °C. The percentage of eggs so much survived in imitation of adult male (23%) used to be perfect at 25°C. The survival rates from egg in conformity with adult female was best possible (34.44 %) at 30°C.The effects about P. madeirensis females life table parameters then reared of Potato sprouts at the three examined temperatures 20, 25 or 30 o C, the mean generation time (T) was once 51.46, 28.64 then 20.71, respectively. The population on P. madeirensis could keep doubled each 8.96, 4.37 or 3.03 days, respectively. The net reproductive rate (Ro), representing the total female births was once 115.09, 93.91 or 53.61. The value on the intrinsic rate of increase (r m) was once 0.08, 0.16 then 0.23 respectively. The finite rate of increase (λ) about P. madeirensis was once 1.08, 1.17 and 1.26 time out of 20°C to 30°C, respectively. Degree day requirements to P. madeirensis required 357.14 DD in accordance with completed theirs improvement beside egg stage in accordance with adult female, while out of egg according to male was 400 DD.

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New records of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) from Spain

Abstract: Five mealybug (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) species were identified as new records for Spain: Phenacoccus madeirensis (Green), Phenacoccus solani Ferris, Dysmicoccus boninsis (Kuwana), Hypogeococcus pungens Granara de Willink and Ferrisia malvastra (McDaniel).

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

Studies on the Biology ofHypogeococcus pungens(sensu stricto) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Argentina to Aid the Identification of the Mealybug Pest of Cactaceae in Puerto Rico

Studies on the Biology ofHypogeococcus pungens(sensu stricto) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Argentina to Aid the Identification of the Mealybug Pest of Cactaceae in Puerto Rico

Complex of Primary and Secondary Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae and Signiphoridae) ofHypogeococcusspp. Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in the New World

Life Table Parameters, Thermal-Requirements and Development Rate of the Madeira Mealybug Phenacoccus madeirensis Green, (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

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