EPPO Global Database

Myrtus communis(MYVCO)

Pests

Organism Type
Tetranychus mexicanus (TETRME) Doubtful host
* EPPO (2023) Pest risk analysis for Tetranychus mexicanus. EPPO, Paris
------- uncertain host (see PRA for details)

* Paschoal A (1971) Nova relação de ácaros de plantas do Brasil. Anales 1er. Congreso Latinoamericano de Entomologia. Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 14(1), 174–176.
Austropuccinia psidii (PUCCPS) Host
* Glen M, Alfenas AC, Zauza EAV, Wingfield MJ, Mohammed C (2007) Puccinia psidii: a threat to the Australian environment and economy - a review.  Australasian Plant Pathology 36, 1-16.

* Paap T, Santini A, Rodas CA, Granados GM, Pecori F, Wingfield MJ (2023) Myrtus communis in Europe threatened by the pandemic and South African strains of the myrtle rust pathogen Austropuccinia psidii (Sphaerophragmiaceae, Pucciniales). NeoBiota 84, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.84.95823

* Toome-Heller M, H, WWH, Ganley R.J, Elliott CEA, Quinn B, Pearson HG & Alexander BJR (2020) Chasing myrtle rust in New Zealand: host range and distribution over the first year after invasion. Australasian Plant Pathology (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-020-00694-9
------- Confirmed host.

* Zambino PJ, Nolan PA (2011) First report of rust caused by Puccinia psidii on paperbark Melaleuca quinquenervia in California. Plant Disease 95(10), p 1314.
'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani' (PHYPSO) Host
* Prota VA, Garau R, Paltrinieri S, Botti S, Nahdi S, Calari A, Sechi A, Bertaccini A (2007) Molecular identification of phytoplasmas infecting  myrtle plantations in Sardinia (Italy). Bulletin of Insectology 60 (2), 383-384
Epiphyas postvittana (TORTPO) Host
Homalodisca vitripennis (HOMLTR) Host
* Hoddle MS, Triapitsyn SV, Morgan DJW (2003) Distribution and plant association records for Homalodisca coagulata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Florida. Florida Entomologist 86(1), 89-91.
Neopestalotiopsis rosae (NPESRS) Host
* Aiello D, Gusella G, Leonardi GR, Polizzi G, Voglmayr H (2024) Bottlebrush and Myrtle twig canker caused by Neopestalotiopsis species: an emerging canker-causing group of fungi in Italy. MycoKeys 106, 133-151.
Parasaissetia nigra (SAISNI) Host
* Ülgentürk S, Ercan C, Yaşar B, Kaydan MB (2022) Checklist of Turkish Coccoidea (Hemiptera: Sternorryncha) species. Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences 23(Special Issue), S113-S129. https://doi.org/10.23902/trkjnat.1123152
Ripersiella hibisci (RHIOHI) Host
* Suffert M, Chérasse S, Ouvrard D (2024) New host plant records for Ripersiella hibisci (Hemiptera: Rhizoecidae) following recent outbreaks in Europe. EPPO Bulletin 54(2), 147-150.
Scirtothrips aurantii (SCITAU) Host
* NPPO of Portugal (2024) Lista de vegetais hospedeiros de Scirtothrips aurantii Faure.  https://www.dgav.pt/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Lista-de-hospedeiros-S.aurantii_marco24.pdf
Xylella fastidiosa (XYLEFA) Host
* Commission database of host plants found to be susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa in the Union Territory (update 12 of 2019-04-11).
------- As X. fastidiosa subsp. multiplex and X. fastidiosa subsp. pauca.

* EFSA (2024) Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – Systematic literature search up to 31 December 2023. EFSA Journal 22, e8898. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8898
------- Subspecies (fastidiosa, multiplex, pauca) and undetermined.
Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa (XYLEFF) Host
* EFSA (2024) Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – Systematic literature search up to 31 December 2023. EFSA Journal 22, e8898. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8898
------- Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa.
Xylella fastidiosa subsp. multiplex (XYLEFM) Host
* Commission database of host plants found to be susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa in the Union Territory (update 12 of 2019-04-11).

* EFSA (2024) Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – Systematic literature search up to 31 December 2023. EFSA Journal 22, e8898. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8898
------- Xylella fastidiosa subsp. multiplex.
Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca (XYLEFP) Host
* Commission database of host plants found to be susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa in the Union Territory (update 12 of 2019-04-11).

* EFSA (2024) Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – Systematic literature search up to 31 December 2023. EFSA Journal 22, e8898. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8898
------- Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca.
Scirtothrips citri (as Myrtus) (SCITCI) Wild/Weed
* Bailey SF (1964) A revision of the genus Scirtothrips Shull (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Hilgardia 35, 329-362.