EPPO Global Database

Ageratum sp.(AGESS)

Pests

Organism Type
Pospiviroid impedichrysanthemi (CSVD00) Experimental
* EFSA Panel on Plant Health (2012) Scientific Opinion on the risk to plant health posed by Chrysanthemum stunt viroid for the EU territory, with identification and evaluation of risk reduction options. EFSA Journal. 10(12), 3027. (Quoting: Henkel J and Sänger HL, 1995. NCBI GenBank Accession Z68201.)
Chloridea virescens (HELIVI) Host
* Capinera JL (2001) Heliothis virescens (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) EENY-219 (latest revision Dec. 2018). Featured Creatures. University of Florida. https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/tobacco_budworm.htm
------- common pest of ageratum.

* Edde PA (2018) Principal Insects Affecting Tobacco Plants in the Field. Contributions to Tobacco Research 28, 117-165.

* Hambleton EJ (1944) Heliothis virescens as a pest of cotton, with notes on host plants in Peru. Journal of Economic Entomology 37, 660-666.

* Kogan M, Helm CG, Kogan J, Brewer E (1989) Distribution and economic importance of Heliothis virescens and Heliothis zea in North, Central, and South America and of their Natural Enemies and Host Plants. pp 241-297 In Proceedings of the Workshop on Biological Control of Heliothis: Increasing the effectiveness of natural enemies. USDA.

* EPPO (2024) EPPO Technical Document No. 1091. Pest risk analysis for Chloridea virescens. EPPO, Paris. Available at https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/HELIVI/documents
------- Main host (evidence that the plant supports populations of the pest in several generations or years, i.e. true hosts, or plant mentioned as common or preferred host – see PRA for further details on the host)
Microcephalothrips abdominalis (MCCTAB) Host
* Sartiami D, Mound LA (2013) Identification of the terebrantian thrips (Insecta, Thysanoptera) associated with cultivated plants in Java, Indonesia. ZooKeys 306, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.306.5455
------- Collected from this plant in Java (Indonesia).
Thrips palmi (THRIPL) Host
* Kaomud Tyagi, Vikas Kumar (2014) New records of thrips (Thysanoptera, Terebrantia, Thripidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 114(4), 591-598.