Cook Islands Pest Lists

Page 53 of 53
Cook Islands Pest Lists Database
Hosts with Recorded Pest Occurrences
Host Pest
/ common names
/ Order / common name
Zingiber officinale
Roscoe / ginger
Zingiber zerumbet (L.)
Smith / wild ginger
Zinnia elegans Jacq. /
zinnia
*
a
a
a
a
n
n
a
f
f
Carpophilus dimidiatus Fabricius
Ceroplastes rubens Maskell Pink wax scale
Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner) Black coffee
scale Nigra (pomegranate) scale
Pentalonia nigronervosa Coquerel Banana
aphid
Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid & White,
1919) Chitwood, 1949 root-knot nematode
Rotylenchulus sp. Linford & Oliveira,
1940.
Icerya seychellarum (Westwood) Seychelles
scale
Alternaria zinniae M.B. Ellis
Cercospora zinniae Ellis & G. Martin
Erysiphe cichoracearum var. cichoracearum
(DC.) Mérat powdery mildew
Total number of host-pest cases: 1315
f
Prepared in collaboration with the
Plant Protection Service, Secretariat of the Pacific
Literature
reference
Madison, P.A., 1979
Walker & Deitz, 1977
Madison, P.A., 1979
Madison, P.A., 1979
Grandison G.S., 1990
Ruabete T., 2004
Williams & Watson, 1990
McKenzie E., 2003
Dingley et al., 1981
Dingley et al., 1981
This information is provided in good faith from the best records available at the time. The Secretariat of
the Pacific Community cannot accept responsibility for any consequences arising from the use of this data.
For further information please contact the Government Department and / or the SPC Plant Protection
By request from users, where more than one occurrence of a
pest has been recorded on the same host,
only a single occurrence is displayed.
* Pest Group: a = arthropods including insects; b = bacteria; f = fungi; g = gastropods; n = nematodes; v = viruses; w = weeds
02-Sep-11