EPPO Global Database

'Candidatus Liberibacter africanus'(LIBEAF)

Distribution details in Reunion

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2021: Absent, confirmed by survey
From CABI Pest map 765 (2022): Absent, no record
Comments
From NPPO (2021): surveys (including testing of many samples) have shown that the bacterium is absent from Réunion.
References
* Aubert B, Quilici S (1984) Biological control of the African and Asian citrus psyllids (Homoptera: Psylloidea), through eulophid and encyrtid parasites (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) in Reunion Island. Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Organization of Citrus Virologists, 100-108. Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, USA.

* Catling HG (1973) Results of a survey for psyllid vectors of citrus greening disease in Réunion. FAO Plant Protection Bulletin 21(4), 78-82.
------- Results of a survey (with a map). The 2 vectors Diaphorina citri and Trioza erytreae occur together only in Reunion, Mauritius and Saudi Arabia.

* Etienne J, Aubert B (1980) Biological control of psyllid vectors of greening disease on Reunion Island. Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the International Organization of Citrus Virologists, 118-121. Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, USA.

* Gottwald TR, Aubert B, Xue-Yuan Z (1989) Preliminary analysis of Citrus greening (huanglungbin) epidemics in the People's Republic of China and French Reunion Island. Phytopathology 79(6), 687-693.

* NPPO of France (2021-10).