First Record of Diaspis coccois (Lichtenstein) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) for Mexico Volume 6 - Issue 4

Héctor González-Hernández¹, Armando Equihua-Martínez¹*, Edith G. Estrada-Venegas¹, Erendira López Gómez Tagle¹, José Abel López-Buenfil1, Dionicio Alvarado-Rosales², Luz de Lourdes Saavedra-Romero², Alejandra Almaraz-Sánchez², Sergio Aranda-Ocampo², Andrés Quezada-Salinas³, Silvia Edith García-Díaz⁴, and Carlos Fredy Ortiz⁵

¹Programa de Entomología y Acarología, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, México

²Programa de Fitopatología, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, México

³Centro Nacional de Referencia Fitosanitaria, Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria, México

⁴Parasitología Forestal, División de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, México

⁵Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Tabasco, México

Received:May 22, 2023;   Published:May 26, 2023

Corresponding author:Armando Equihua Martínez, Programa de Entomología y Acarología, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo. 56264, Texcoco, Estado de México, México

DOI: 10.32474/OAJESS.2023.06.000243

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Undoubtedly, urban trees fulfil important functions for society in general, their benefits include landscape designs that are appropriate for the sight and psychology of human beings, recreation sites, shaded areas, reduction of air pollution levels, sources of oxygen, aquifer recharge areas, just to mention a few. In contrast, some associated problems include reforestation programs with wrong choices of tree species, inappropriate density, pollution effects, reduced spaces for their growth and in many cases, limited management programs in soil improvement, pruning programs, fertilization, irrigation, pests, and diseases management. Currently, there is a phytosanitary problem in Mexico City that is causing the death of Canarian palms (Phoenix canariensis Hort. Ex. Chabaud), registered since 2015. In the case of palm trees, based on the study “Agents associated with the decline and death of palm trees in the CMX” financed by SECTEI, there were detected the presence of wilting caused by Phytoplasma 16 srIV subgroup D [1], the fungi of the petiole and rachis Nalanthamala vermoesenii, Phomopsis, Lasiodiplodia and Serenomyces, the fungi of the foliage Neopestalotiopsis, Alternaria and Phoma glomerata, and of the root Fusarium oxysporum [2]. Although canary palms are common in Mexico City, their diversity of associated organisms, particularly the entomofauna, has never been studied. With this background, the present study aimed to determine the species of armored scale associated with Canarian palms from some locations in Mexico City..

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