Establishment of black aphid in Macadamia nut trees in Cuba
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The Black Aphid Toxoptera aurantii (Boyer de Fonscolombe) (Homoptera: Aphididae), is a polyphagous pest that uses Macadamia integrifolia trees as its host. In Cuba, Macadamia trees do not have any economic relevance. Nonetheless, since 2012 an agronomic and phytopathology screening started on an ex situ tropical and ‘subtropical fruit trees collection in Artemisa, Cuba. During the screening it was detected for the first time that T. aurantii affects Macadamia trees. After the taxonomic identification, was detected the presence of natural enemies and fluctuations of different instars due to the different monthly rain. The previous detection of a phytoplasmin ten of twelve Macadamia trees was used to corroborate that T. aurantii was indeed feeding from Macadamia trees. We provided biological and molecular evidences of the establishment of T. aurantii in Macadamia trees in Cuba. This is the first report of Macadamia nut trees as natural host for T. aurantii in Cuba.
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