EPPO Global Database

Paraleyrodes minei(PARYMI)

Distribution details in Italy

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2014: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2010
From CABI Pest map 796 (2015): Present, restricted distribution
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2011/152) : first found at the end of 2010 in the ‘Parco Gussone’, the garden of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Napoli ‘Federico II’ at Portici (Campania region), on the foliage of citrus trees (Citrus aurantium).

EPPO Reporting Service (2014/215) : spread continues in Italy, also found in Sicilia.
References
* Iaccarino FM, Jesu R, Giacometti R (2011) Paraleyrodes minei Iaccarino 1990 (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae), new species for Italy, on Citrus aurantium L., 1758. Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research 43(1), 1-6.

* Jesu R, Iaccarino FM (2011) Paraleyrodes minei nuovo aleirode degli agrumi. L’Informatore Agrario no. 23, p 65.

* Longo S, Rapisarda C (2014) Spread of Paraleyrodes minei Iaccarino (nesting whitefly in Italian citrus groves. Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 44(3), 529-533.
-------- Eastern part of Sicilia (spreading rapidly).

* NPPO of Italy (2011-07).