Identifying cryptic species of Planococcus infesting vineyards to improve control efforts

Margarita C. G. Correa1, Ferran Palero2,3, Vitor C. Pacheco da Silva4, M. Bora Kaydan5,6, Jean-Francois Germain7, Shaaban Abd-Rabou8, Kent M. Daane9, Arturo Cocco10, Elie Poulin11, Thibaut Malausa3
1Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile
2Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain
3INRAE, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, ISA, Sophia Antipolis, France
4Sección Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias, Unidad de Entomología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de La República, Montevideo, Uruguay
5Biotechnology Application Research Centre, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
6Imamoglu Vocational School, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
7ANSES, Laboratoire de la Santé des Végétaux, Unité d’entomologie et Plantes Invasives, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-sur-Lez Cedex, France
8Plant protection research institute, Giza, Egypt
9Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA
10Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
11 Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular (LEM), Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) constitute important agricultural pests that often require control measures. Different mealybug taxa might, however, react differently to natural enemies and pesticides so that appropriate control measures against mealybugs rely heavily on the correct species identification. The mealybug Planococcus ficus (Signoret) is the most damaging scale insect infesting vineyards worldwide. Despite its economic impact, the taxonomic status of this mealybug species is still unclear, and recent studies suggest the possibility that P. ficus from eastern (i.e., Egypt) and western (i.e., France) Mediterranean regions may correspond in fact to two distinct species. The purpose of this work was to deepen our current knowledge of putative P. ficus from eastern Mediterranean using molecular tools and morphological analysis and test for the existence of cryptic species within P. ficus. Mealybug samples were collected from Egyptian vineyards to better characterize the genetic diversity and analyze the population structure of putative P. ficus along the eastern Mediterranean. We also estimated the phylogenetic relationships among the P. ficus complex haplotypes in different vineyard regions worldwide and analyzed the morphological characters of the different clades obtained. Morphological and molecular analyses confirmed the existence of two species: P. ficus (Signoret) s.str. and P. vitis (Niedielski), a species that was previously synonymized as P. ficus. These results have direct implications for pest management and could explain the lack of success in previous implementations of biological control programs against this pest in several vineyard regions.

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