Phytoparasitica (2012) 40, 239-241

Rafael Coelho Ribeiro, Walkymário de Paulo Lemos, Paulo Manoel Pontes Lins, Roberta de Melo Valente, Antonio Agostinho Müller, Alexandre Mehl Lunz and José Cola Zanuncio (2012)
Damage by Homalinotus depressus in commercial coconut palm crops in the Amazonian region of Brazil
Phytoparasitica 40 (3), 239-241
Abstract: The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L., Arecaceae) has great economic and social importance for many industrial and non-industrial products. Pests can reduce its productivity and cause its death. In 2005, larvae and adults of a Curculionidae were observed damaging the floral stalk of coconut palms in commercial plantations in the municipality of Moju, Pará State, in the Brazilian Amazon. Insects were identified as the black coconut bunch weevil, Homalinotus depressus (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cholini). This is the first report of this pest damaging coconut palms in Brazil.
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Database assignments for author(s): José Cola Zanuncio

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Homalinotus depressus	Coconut (Cocos nucifera)	Brazil (NW)