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Damage by Homalinotus depressus in commercial coconut palm crops in the Amazonian region of Brazil |
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| Authors: | Rafael Coelho Ribeiro Walkymário de Paulo Lemos Paulo Manoel Pontes Lins Roberta de Melo Valente Antonio Agostinho Müller Alexandre Mehl Lunz José Cola Zanuncio |
| Institution: | 1. Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal de Vi?osa (UFV), Vi?osa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil 2. Laborat??rio de Entomologia, Embrapa Amaz?nia Oriental, CPATU, Bel??m, Par?? State, Brazil 3. Soc?co S.A. Agroind??stria da Amaz?nia, Moju, Par?? State, Brazil 4. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Par?? (UFPA), Bel??m, Par?? State, Brazil 5. Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Vi?osa (UFV), Vi?osa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil |
| 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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