EPPO Global Database

Duranta erecta(DUTPL)

Pests

Organism Type
Aleurocanthus woglumi (ALECWO) Host
* Shaw JG (1950) Hosts of the citrus blackfly in Mexico. United States Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. E-793, 3 pp.
Aleurothrixus floccosus (ALTHFL) Host
* Shih AT, Polaszek A, Dubey AK, Chen SP, Yang PS, Ko CC (2015): New species of Eretmocerus Haldeman (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) parasitizing Crenidorsum turpiniae (Takahashi) and Aleurothrixus floccosus (Maskell) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from Taiwan, Journal of Natural History, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1075622
------- It causes serious damage to Duranta repens (ornamental) in Taiwan.
Aleurothrixus trachoides (ALTRTR) Host
Bucephalogonia xanthophis (BUCLXA) Host
* Bento JMS, Arab A, Zacarin GG, Signoretti AGC, Silva JWP (2008) Attraction of Bucephalogonia xanthophis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) to volatiles of its natural host Vernonia condensata (Asteraceae). Scientia Agricola (Piracicaba, Brazil) 65(6), 634-638.
------- as Duranta repens
Scirtothrips dorsalis (SCITDO) Host
* Klassen W, Seal DR, Ciomperlik MA, Fieslemann DA (2008) The chilli thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis: current status in the Greater Caribbean Region. Proceeedings of the Caribbean food crops society,  44(1), 103-117.
------- reproductive host in Florida.
Margarodes vitis (as Verbenaceae) (MARGVI) Wild/Weed
* Giliomee J, de Klerk C & Watson GW (2022) 3.3.4 Margarodes spp. In: Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests (Eds Kondo T & Watson GW), pp. 69-73. CAB International, Wallingford (UK).