Description of Pre-Adult Stages of the Coconut Bug, Pseudotheraptus wayi

The coconut bug, Pseudotheraptus wayi Brown (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae), is a serious pest of a number of crops in Eastern and Southern Africa. Both adults and nymphal stages are destructive because they suck sap from their hosts. The identity of the pest is currently based exclusively on the...

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Autores principales: Egonyu, James Peter, Kabaru, Jacques, lrungu, Lucy, Haas, Fabian
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Library 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24205816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.013.9101
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description The coconut bug, Pseudotheraptus wayi Brown (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae), is a serious pest of a number of crops in Eastern and Southern Africa. Both adults and nymphal stages are destructive because they suck sap from their hosts. The identity of the pest is currently based exclusively on the description of adults. This paper describes eggs and instars of P. wayi, with the goal to enhance identification of all stages for effective monitoring and management of the pest. Morphological illustrations are presented, and differences among the instars, as well as their relationship with the adult stage, are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-38408492013-11-26 Description of Pre-Adult Stages of the Coconut Bug, Pseudotheraptus wayi Egonyu, James Peter Kabaru, Jacques lrungu, Lucy Haas, Fabian J Insect Sci Article The coconut bug, Pseudotheraptus wayi Brown (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae), is a serious pest of a number of crops in Eastern and Southern Africa. Both adults and nymphal stages are destructive because they suck sap from their hosts. The identity of the pest is currently based exclusively on the description of adults. This paper describes eggs and instars of P. wayi, with the goal to enhance identification of all stages for effective monitoring and management of the pest. Morphological illustrations are presented, and differences among the instars, as well as their relationship with the adult stage, are discussed. University of Wisconsin Library 2013-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3840849/ /pubmed/24205816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.013.9101 Text en © 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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