Desenvolvimento de Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) em cafeeiros - DOI: 10.4025/actasciagron.v31i1.6603

Lenira Viana Costa Santa-Cecília; Lílian Roberta Batista Correa; Brígida Souza; Ernesto Prado; Eliana Alcantra

doi:10.4025/actasciagron.v31i1.6603

Development of Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in coffee trees - DOI: 10.4025/actasciagron.v31i1.6603

Lenira Viana Costa Santa-Cecília EPAMIG
Lílian Roberta Batista Correa UNESP
Brígida Souza UFLA
Ernesto Prado EPAMIG
Eliana Alcantra UFLA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/actasciagron.v31i1.6603

Keywords: biology, citrus mealybug, Coffea spp.

Abstract

The citrus mealybug Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813) feeds mainly on flowers and fruits of coffee plants from blooming until harvest. Little is known about its development in coffee although its occurrence is already known for several years. This work aims to study the nymph development of this mealybug in coffee plants. Eggs were isolated from a stock culture kept in laboratory and placed inside Petri dishes containing leaf sections in agar. The tested cultivars were Acaia Cerrado, Mundo Novo, Catuai Vermelho (Coffea arabica) and Apoatã (C. canephora). Insects were kept in a climatized chamber at 25ºC, 70 ± 10% humidity and 12-hour photophase. The longest development period in females was obtained in cultivar Catuai Vermelho. No differences in mortality were found among cultivars. Mealybugs developed in all cultivars and the results did not show clear differences in susceptibility.

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Author Biography

Lenira Viana Costa Santa-Cecília, EPAMIG

Atualmente é pesquisadora da Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária de Minas Gerais e responsável pelo Laboratório de Controle Biológico de Pragas do CTSM/EPAMIG/EcoCentro em Lavras-MG. Há vários anos vem dedicando as pesquisas com as cochonilhas-farinhentas da família Pseudococcidae em diversas culturas, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: bioecologia, interação inseto planta, monitoramento eletrônico mediante a técnica de Electrical Penetration Graphs (EPG) e manejo. É líder do grupo de pesquisa " Interação Inseto Planta em relação à Resistência, Transmissão de Doenças, Comportamento alimentar." Currículo Lattes

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Published

2009-03-19

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Santa-Cecília, L. V. C., Correa, L. R. B., Souza, B., Prado, E., & Alcantra, E. (2009). Development of Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in coffee trees - DOI: 10.4025/actasciagron.v31i1.6603. Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy, 31(1), 13-15. https://doi.org/10.4025/actasciagron.v31i1.6603

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Issue

Vol 31 No 1 (2009)

Section

Crop Protection

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