Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), and huanglongbing disease do not exist in the Stapleton Station area of the Northern Territory of Australia |
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| Authors: | Glenn Bellis David Hollis Sarah Jacobson |
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| Institution: | Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy, GPO Box 3000, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia.; The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), London SW7 5BD, UK.; Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy, PO Box 1054, Mareeba, Qld 4880, Australia. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract A series of specimens of the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri , collected from the Northern Territory (NT) in 1915 was recently rediscovered in the Natural History Museum, London. Surveys were conducted in 2002 on suitable hosts in the locality of the 1915 collections to see if the infestation had persisted. These failed to detect either D. citri or the bacterium that it transmits and that causes huanglongbing disease in citrus. It is presumed that D. citri was eradicated fortuitously by the removal of all citrus plants above latitude 19°S during an eradication program for citrus canker in the NT from 1916 until 1922. |
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| Keywords: | Asian citrus psyllid citrus Diaphorina citri huanglongbing Quarantine |
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