EPPO Global Database

Myrtus communis(MYVCO)

Pests

Organism Type
Tetranychus mexicanus (TETRME) Doubtful host
* EPPO (2023) Pest risk analysis for Tetranychus mexicanus. EPPO, Paris
------- uncertain host (see PRA for details)

* Paschoal A (1971) Nova relação de ácaros de plantas do Brasil. Anales 1er. Congreso Latinoamericano de Entomologia. Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 14(1), 174–176.
Austropuccinia psidii (PUCCPS) Host
* Glen M, Alfenas AC, Zauza EAV, Wingfield MJ, Mohammed C (2007) Puccinia psidii: a threat to the Australian environment and economy - a review.  Australasian Plant Pathology 36, 1-16.

* Paap T, Santini A, Rodas CA, Granados GM, Pecori F, Wingfield MJ (2023) Myrtus communis in Europe threatened by the pandemic and South African strains of the myrtle rust pathogen Austropuccinia psidii (Sphaerophragmiaceae, Pucciniales). NeoBiota 84, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.84.95823

* Toome-Heller M, H, WWH, Ganley R.J, Elliott CEA, Quinn B, Pearson HG & Alexander BJR (2020) Chasing myrtle rust in New Zealand: host range and distribution over the first year after invasion. Australasian Plant Pathology (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-020-00694-9
------- Confirmed host.

* Zambino PJ, Nolan PA (2011) First report of rust caused by Puccinia psidii on paperbark Melaleuca quinquenervia in California. Plant Disease 95(10), p 1314.
'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani' (PHYPSO) Host
* Prota VA, Garau R, Paltrinieri S, Botti S, Nahdi S, Calari A, Sechi A, Bertaccini A (2007) Molecular identification of phytoplasmas infecting  myrtle plantations in Sardinia (Italy). Bulletin of Insectology 60 (2), 383-384
Epiphyas postvittana (TORTPO) Host
Homalodisca vitripennis (HOMLTR) Host
* Hoddle MS, Triapitsyn SV, Morgan DJW (2003) Distribution and plant association records for Homalodisca coagulata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Florida. Florida Entomologist 86(1), 89-91.
Parasaissetia nigra (SAISNI) Host
* Ülgentürk S, Ercan C, Yaşar B, Kaydan MB (2022) Checklist of Turkish Coccoidea (Hemiptera: Sternorryncha) species. Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences 23(Special Issue), S113-S129. https://doi.org/10.23902/trkjnat.1123152
Xylella fastidiosa (XYLEFA) Host
* Commission database of host plants found to be susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa in the Union Territory (update 12 of 2019-04-11).
------- As X. fastidiosa subsp. multiplex and X. fastidiosa subsp. pauca.
Xylella fastidiosa subsp. multiplex (XYLEFM) Host
* Commission database of host plants found to be susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa in the Union Territory (update 12 of 2019-04-11).
Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca (XYLEFP) Host
* Commission database of host plants found to be susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa in the Union Territory (update 12 of 2019-04-11).
Scirtothrips citri (as Myrtus) (SCITCI) Wild/Weed
* Bailey SF (1964) A revision of the genus Scirtothrips Shull (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Hilgardia 35, 329-362.