Brevipalpus mites (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) as vectors of plant viruses

摘要

This paper reviews several rhabdovirus or rhabdovirus-like diseases (e.g. the virus causing leprosis on citrus and coffee ring spot on coffee, Ligustrum ring spot, green spot on passion fruit, orchid fleck, and the symptoms of zonate chlorosis) and their associated mite vectors in the genus Brevipalpus (Tenuipalpidae). B. phoenicis (Geijskes), B. obovatus Donnadieu, and B. califomicus (Banks) have been identified as vectors in the transmission of one or more of these diseases. Two important crops, coffee and citrus, are affected by coffee ring spot and citrus leprosis, respectively. Presently, leprosis is the major virus disease of citrus in Brazil and coffee ring spot, after many years as a non-economic disease, caused serious economic losses in Minas Gerais State in Brazil during 1995.