Description of pre-adult stages of the coconut bug, Pseudotherapthus wayi
Date
1999Author
Egonyu, JP
Kabaru, J
Irungu, LW
Haas, F
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ArticleLanguage
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The coconut bug, Pseudotheraptus wayi Brown (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae), is a serious pest of a number of crops in Eastern and Southern Africa. Both adults and nymphal stages are destructive because they suck sap from their hosts. The identity of the pest is currently based ex-clusively on the description of adults. This paper describes eggs and instars of P. wayi, with the goal to enhance identification of all stages for effective monitoring and management of the pest. Morphological illustrations are presented, and differences among the instars, as well as their rela-tionship with the adult stage, are discussed.
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https://jinsectscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/1/91
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Description of pre-adult stages of the coconut bug, Pseudotherapthus wayi ., JP, Egonyu, J Kabaru, LW Irungu, and F Haas , Journal of Insect Science , (In Press) copy at http://profiles.uonbi.ac.ke/lirungu/publications/description-pre-adult-stages-coconut-bug-pseudotherapthus-wayiPublisher
School of Biological Sciences