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29 March 2022 Susceptibility of a Mexican Field-Collected Wild Population of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae) to Selected Insecticides
Saúl Pardo-Melgarejo, J. Concepción Rodríguez-Maciel, Samuel Pineda-Guillermo, Filemón Morales-Hernández, Ángel Lagunes-Tejeda, Ariel W. Guzmán-Franco, Gonzalo Silva-Aguayo
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Abstract

The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri (Kuwayama) (Hemiptera: Liviidae), is a severe pest of citrus orchards worldwide. Its control is based mainly on the use of conventional insecticides, and resistance to many of those compounds is widespread. Phenotypic bioassays to detect resistance compare the response of a field-collected population with a laboratory-reared population that is susceptible to insecticides. This comparison usually does not involve a susceptible field-collected counterpart since its existence is currently rare. We found an isolated field population of D. citri living on a wild host, orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata [L.] Jack). Considering its lifetime fly capacity, gene flow with any insecticide-treated population was nonexistent or negligible. Thus, we determined the response in fourth-instar nymphs and unsexed 2- to 5-d-old adults in bioassays of commercial formulations of the commonly used insecticides chlorpyrifos, malathion, imidacloprid, and spinosad. In the bioassays, insects were placed on leaf discs previously immersed for 10 s in the respective insecticide concentrations. For adults, the lowest concentration–mortality response was with chlorpyrifos (lethal concentration 50 [LC50] of 0.72 mg L-1 and lethal concentration 95 [LC95] of 1.02 mg L-1). The highest toxicity response was with malathion (LC95 of 0.05 mg L-1). The highest toxicity response with fourth-instar nymphs was observed with spinosad (LC50 of 0.007, LC95 of 0.021 mg L-1). The estimated LC50 and LC95 values for chlorpyrifos, malathion, and spinosad were lower than those documented worldwide for these insecticides in susceptible populations of D. citri.

Saúl Pardo-Melgarejo, J. Concepción Rodríguez-Maciel, Samuel Pineda-Guillermo, Filemón Morales-Hernández, Ángel Lagunes-Tejeda, Ariel W. Guzmán-Franco, and Gonzalo Silva-Aguayo "Susceptibility of a Mexican Field-Collected Wild Population of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae) to Selected Insecticides," Journal of Entomological Science 57(2), 281-287, (29 March 2022). https://doi.org/10.18474/JES21-49
Received: 20 August 2021; Accepted: 22 September 2021; Published: 29 March 2022
KEYWORDS
baseline susceptibility
greening disease
insecticide resistance
lemon
Liviidae
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