The oviposition pattern of Dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): why Argentinian populations differ from Mexican populations?

EDUARDO G. VIRLA; ERICA B. LUFT ALBARRACÍN; MARIANO ORDANO

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Congreso; 15th lnternational Auchenorrhyncha Congress and 10th lnternational Workshop on Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Economic lmportance; 2017

In the Americas, the com leafhopper, Dalbulus maidis (DeLong) (Cicadellidae), causes great damage to com crops (Zea mays L.) because it efficiently transmits three important pathogens that adversely affect the crop: Com stunt spiroplasma (CSS), Maize bushy stunt phytoplasma(MBSP) and Maize rayado fino virus (MRFV). Dalbulus maidis is a specialist herbivore feeding only on plants of the genus Zea (maize and teosintes) (Bellota et al. 2013). The eggs of D. maidis are imbedded in the com tissues, mostly along the midrib (Pitre 1967; Heady et al. 1985;Bellota et al. 2013); even though the last statement