EPPO Global Database

Maconellicoccus hirsutus(PHENHI)

Distribution details in Brazil

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2019: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2010
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2013/009) : first found in 2010, several localities in the state of Roraima (Boa Vista, Bonfim, Normandia, Pacaraima).

EPPO Reporting Service (2015/035) : found in Espirito Santo in May 2012 in commercial okra fields in the municipality of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim. Other specimens were then found on the same site on more plants (Abelmoschus esculentus, Solanum americanum and an unidentified weed).
Also found in 2013 in another municipality (Linhares) in Espirito Santo and for the first time in the state of Bahia in the municipality of Mucuri on cocoa plants.

EPPO Reporting Service (2018/173) : found in the state of Maranhao.
References
* Broglio SMF, Cordero EP, Santos JM, Micheletti LB (2015) [Record of pink hibiscus mealybug infesting fruit species in Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil]. Revista Caatinga 28(2), 242-248 (in Portuguese).
------- Alagoas.

* Culik MP, dos Santos Martins D, Zanuncio Jr JS, Fornazier MJ, Ventura JA, Peronti ALBG, Zanuncio JC (2013) The invasive hibiscus mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) and its recent range expansion in Brazil. Florida Entomologist 96(2), 638-640.

* INTERNET
CEPLAC (Comissao Executiva do Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira). Ocorrência da cochonilha rosada em cacauais da Bahia e Espírito Santo (dated 2014-01-07). http://www.ceplac.gov.br/restrito/lerNoticia.asp?id=2159

* Marsaro Jr AL, Peronti ALBG, Penteado-Dias AM, Morais EFG, Pereira PRVS (2013) First report of Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green, 1908) (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) and the associated parasitoid Anagyrus kamali Moursi, 1948 (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), in Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology 73(2), 413-418.
------- First record.

* Martins dos S. D, Fornazier MJ, Peronti ALBG, Culik MP, Souza CAS, Taques RC, Zanuncio Jr JS, Queiroz RB (2019) Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Brazil: recent spread, natural enemies, and new hosts. Florida Entomologist 102(2), 438-443. https://doi.org/10.1653/024.102.0225

* Morais EGF (2016) Distribuição, impactos e manejo da cochonilha-rosada, Maconellicoccus hirsutus, no Brasil. Abstract of a paper presented at the XXVI Congresso Brasileiro de Entomologia and IX Congresso Latino-americano de Entomologia (Maceio, Alagoas, BR, 2016-03-13/17).

* Morais EGF, Peronti, ALBG, Marsaro AL Jr, da Silva RJ Jr (2012) [New records and hosts of the pink mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus in Roraima]. Abstract of a paper presented at the XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Entomologia (Curitiba, BR, 2012-09-16/20) (in Portuguese). http://www.cbe2012.com.br/_apps/trabalhos/986/986_2.pdf

* Ramos ASJC, Peronti ALBG, Kondo T, Lemos RNS (2018) First record of Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell, 1914) (Monophlebidae) in Brazil and Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green, 1908) (Pseudococcidae) in the state of Maranhão. Brazilian Journal of Biology 78(1), 87-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.05416
------- Maranhao.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Colombia Present, restricted distribution view...
French Guiana Present, no details view...
Guyana Present, widespread view...
Suriname Present, restricted distribution view...
Venezuela Present, no details view...