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Mature avocado trees at TREC

Listado de Plagas del Aguacate

Nombre ComúnNombre CientíficoImagen
Chinche de Encaje del Aguacate Pseudacysta perseae   
Ácaro de los brotes del aguacate  Tegolophus perseaflorae   
Diaprepes, gorgojo de la raíz  Diaprepes abbreviatus   
Escarabajos Ambrosiales  Xylosandrus crassiusculus
Xyleborus volvulus
Thoeborus solitaricaps
Xyleborus glabratus
 
 
Medidores, orugas del aguacate  Epimeces detexta
Oxydia vesulia
Anacamptodes sp.
 
 
Trips del Aguacate 

Flower thrips
Frankliniella kelliae
Frankliniella bispinosa


Red banded thrips
Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
 

 
Miridos del aguacate  Daghbertus fasciatus
D. olivaceous
 
 
Escamas del aguacate  Coconut scale (Aspidiotus destructor)
Florida red scale (Chrysomphalus aonidum)
Coccus sp.
 
 
Gorgojo Azul-Verde  Pachnaeus litus   
Arañita Roja o ácaro rojo del Aguacate  Oligonychus yothersi   
Ácaro de Persea Oligonychus perseae   

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