Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue: 2

Diagnostic characters of two Rastrococcus species (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) occurring on mango in India

  • Author:
  • G. Nagalakshmi1,, Abraham Verghese2, K. N. Varalakshmi3
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 231 to 233

1P.hd. Scholar, Jain university, Bengaluru

2National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bellary Road, Bengaluru-560024, Karnataka

3Jain University, Center for Post Graduate Studies, 3rd Block, Jayanagar, Bengaluru-560011, Karnataka

Abstract

Surveys were conducted in different mango growing regions of India during 2012–14 to document mealybug species on mango. Rastrococcus iceryoides (Green) and R. invadens williams were two dominant species recorded. Field diagnostic characters of both the species were described and presented for easy identification of the species.

Keywords

mango, mealybugs, Rastrococcus spp