EPPO Global Database

Washingtonia robusta(WATRO)

Pests

Organism Type
Aleurocanthus woglumi (ALECWO) Host
* Shaw JG (1950) Hosts of the citrus blackfly in Mexico. United States Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. E-793, 3 pp.
Brontispa longissima (BRONLO) Host
'Candidatus Phytoplasma aculeata' (PHYPAC) Host
* Ferguson MH, Singh R, Cook M, Burks T, Ong K (2020) Geographic distribution and host range of lethal bronzing associated with phytoplasma subgroup 16SrIV-D on palms in southern Louisiana. Plant health progress 21(4), 350-355. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-06-20-0046-S
‘Candidatus Phytoplasma palmae' (PHYPPA) Host
* Poghosyan A, Hernandez-Gonzalez J, Lebsky V, Oropeza C, Narvaez M, Leon de La Luz JL (2019) First report of 16SrIV palm lethal yellowing group phytoplasma (‘Candidatus Phytoplasma palmae’) in palmilla de taco (Brahea brandegeei) and palma colorada (Washingtonia robusta) in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Plant Disease 103(8), 2122. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-02-19-0247-PDN
Ceroplastes stellifer (VINSST) Host
Haplaxius crudus (MYNDCR) Host
* Howard FW, Mead FW (1980) A survey of Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Homoptera) associated with palms in southern Florida. Tropical Agriculture 57(2), pp.145-153.
--------- Adult host.
Metamasius hemipterus (METAHE) Host
* Giblin-Davis RM, Peña JE, Duncan RE (1994) Lethal trap for evaluation of semiochemical mediated attraction of Metamasius hemipterus sericeus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Florida Entomologist 77, 247-255.
Octodonta nipae (OCTDNI) Host
Opogona sacchari (as Washingtonia) (OPOGSC) Host
* van der Gaag DJ, van der Straten M, Ramel JM, Baufeld P , Schrader G (2013) Pest Risk Analysis for Opogona sacchari. Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority. 48 pp. Available at https://pra.eppo.int/pra/2823b66f-ce73-48eb-8272-082124412092.
------- intercepted in consignments of plants for planting.
Palm lethal yellowing type syndromes (PHYP56) Host
* Poghosyan A, Hernandez-Gonzalez J, Lebsky V, Oropeza C, Narvaez M, Leon de La Luz JL (2019) First report of 16SrIV palm lethal yellowing group phytoplasma ('Candidatus Phytoplasma palmae') in palmilla de taco (Brahea brandegeei) and palma colorada (Washingtonia robusta) in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Plant Disease 103(8), p 2122.
------- 16SrIV-D.
Paysandisia archon (PAYSAR) Host
* Drescher J & Jaubert R (2003) Paysandisia archon continue sa progression. PHM Revue Horticole 445, 49-51.

* Sarto i Monteys V (2013) Paysandisia archon (Castniidae): description, biological cycle, behavior, host plants, symptoms and damages. Proceedings of AFPP – Palm Pest Mediterranean Conference, Nice (FR), 33-50. 
Raoiella indica (RAOIIN) Host
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (RHYCFE) Host
* Longo S, Anderson PJ, Smith RT, Stanley JD, Inserra RN (2011) New palm hosts for the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, in Sicily. Palms 55(1), 15-20.

* Roda A, Kairo M, Damian T, Franken F, Heidweiller K, Johanns C, Mankin R (2011) Red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus), an invasive pest recently found in the Caribbean that threatens the region. EPPO Bulletin 41, 116-121.
Rhynchophorus palmarum (RHYCPA) Host
* Landero-Torres I, Presa-Parra E, Elena Galindo-Tovar M, Leyva-Ovalle OR, Murguía-González J, Valenzuela-González JE & García-Martínez MA (2015) Variación temporal y espacial de la abundancia del picudo negro (Rhynchophorus palmarum L., Coleoptera: Curculionidae) en cultivos de palmas ornamentales del centro de Veracruz, México. Southwestern Entomologist 40(1), 179-188.
Cerataphis brasiliensis (CEATVA) Major host
Diocalandra frumenti (DIOCFR) Major host
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. palmarum (FUSAPL) Major host
* Elliott ML, Des Jardin EA, O’Donnell K, Geiser DM, Harrison NA, Broschat TK (2010) Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. palmarum, a novel forma specialis causing a lethal disease of Syagrus romanzoffiana and Washingtonia robusta in Florida. Plant Disease 94(1), 31-38.