EPPO Global Database

Agave amica(POCTU)

Pests

Organism Type
Aphelenchoides besseyi (APLOBE) Host
* Bala SC, Nihal R, Khan MR (2019) Pathogenicity and population dynamics of foliar nematode, Aphelenchoides besseyi infecting tuberose in West Bengal, India. Journal of Environmental Biology 40, 1159-1163.

* Khan MR, Handoo ZA, Rao U, Rao SB, Prasad JS (2012) Observations on the foliar nematode, Aphelenchoides besseyi, infecting tuberose and rice in India. Journal of Nematology 44(4), 391-398.
Ditylenchus dipsaci (DITYDI) Host
* Goodey JB, Franklin MT, Hooper DJ (1965) T. Goodey's: The Nematode Parasites of Plants Catalogued Under Their Hosts. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, Bucks, England. Third edition, 214 pp.
Scyphophorus acupunctatus (SCYPIN) Host
* Cuervo-Parra JA, Pérez-España VH, López Pérez PA, Morales-Ovando MA, Arce-Cervantes O, Aparicio-Burgos JE, Romero-Cortes T (2019) Scyphophorus acupunctatus (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae): a weevil threatening the production of agave in Mexico. Florida Entomologist 102(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1653/024.102.0101
------- As Polianthes tuberosa.

* Riba i Flinch JM, Alonso Zarazaga MA (2007) [The agave snout weevil or sisal weevil, Scyphophorus acupunctatus Gyllenhal, 1838 (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae): first record from the Iberian Peninsula]. Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 41, 419-422 (in Spanish).
------- As Polianthes tuberosa.