Aleurocanthusspiniferus (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in Some European Countries: Diffusion, Hosts, Molecular Characterization, and Natural Enemies.

ABSTRACT: After the first record in 2008 in Southeast Italy, the alien invasive and quarantine pest Aleurocanthusspiniferus (orange spiny whitefly-OSW) has gradually spread throughout Europe, infesting several new host plants in addition to the known hosts. Molecular characterization of some Italian populations and a newly found Albanian population highlighted two different haplotypes invading Europe, belonging to one of the haplogroups previously recorded in China. A predator was recorded for the first time in several fields in Italy in association with OSW and other whitefly species. It was successively identified through a morpho-molecular characterization as a Nearctic member of the tribe Serangiini, the ladybird beetle, Delphastuscatalinae. This predator represents a promising biocontrol agent

SUBMITTER: Nugnes F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7022741 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature