Partial Survey of Date Palm Dust Mite, Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor) in Egypt Including Historical Trait
Sanad, A., Elhalawany, A., Abou-Setta, M., El-Khateeb, H. (2017). Partial Survey of Date Palm Dust Mite, Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor) in Egypt Including Historical Trait. EKB Journal Management System, 11(1), 53-55. doi: 10.21608/ajesa.2017.164173
A. S. Sanad; Ashraf Said Elhalawany; M. M. Abou-Setta; Hanaa M. El-Khateeb. "Partial Survey of Date Palm Dust Mite, Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor) in Egypt Including Historical Trait". EKB Journal Management System, 11, 1, 2017, 53-55. doi: 10.21608/ajesa.2017.164173
Sanad, A., Elhalawany, A., Abou-Setta, M., El-Khateeb, H. (2017). 'Partial Survey of Date Palm Dust Mite, Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor) in Egypt Including Historical Trait', EKB Journal Management System, 11(1), pp. 53-55. doi: 10.21608/ajesa.2017.164173
Sanad, A., Elhalawany, A., Abou-Setta, M., El-Khateeb, H. Partial Survey of Date Palm Dust Mite, Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor) in Egypt Including Historical Trait. EKB Journal Management System, 2017; 11(1): 53-55. doi: 10.21608/ajesa.2017.164173

Partial Survey of Date Palm Dust Mite, Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor) in Egypt Including Historical Trait

Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology
Article 11, Volume 11, Issue 1, December 2017, Page 53-55  XML PDF (204.88 K)
Document Type: Original research articles
DOI: 10.21608/ajesa.2017.164173
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Authors
A. S. Sanad1; Ashraf Said Elhalawanyorcid 2; M. M. Abou-Setta3; Hanaa M. El-Khateeb4
1Plant Protection Research. Institute , Agri. Res. Center, Giza, Egypt
2Fruit Trees Mites Dept., Plant Protection Research Institute, ARC, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
3Plant Protection Research Institute, Agric. Res. Center, Giza, Egypt
4Plant Protec. Res. Inst., ARC, Dokii, Giza, Egypt
Abstract
The economic importance of date palm tree Phoenix, dactylifera L. exceeds its nutrition value as the most valuable fruit. Preserve Egypt's international status as a large producer of dates in the world, requires tackling pests that attack palm trees. Diseases and pathogen pests are causing great economic loss to the growers, reducing about 52 % of the total yield. Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor) (Acari: Tetranychidae) is a dominant acarine pest in date palm production area in the Middle East and North Africa. Current survey covered different date palm plantation in Giza, Assiut, Matruh and the New Valley Governorates. Results showed that the dust mite has spread out to promising agricultural expansion areas. This finding sets the alarm of existing this mite as a new potential pest for date palm industry in the New Valley governorate. It is a more important problem for new introduced varieties as the high cash crop Barhi variety (soft variety). The existence of this species in Egypt was firstly mentioned in 1979 at Al-Kharga oasis, the New Valley. A historical trait of this mite pest over Egypt was included.
Keywords
Date palm; Dust mite; Oligonychus afrasiaticus
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