Coffee Pests

Pests of Major Significance

Insect pests

• White coffee stem borer: Xylotrechus quadripes (Chevrolat) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
• Coffee berry borer: Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
• Coffee root mealybug: Planococcus citri Risso & P. lilacinus Cockerell (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)
• Shot hole borer: Xylosandrus compactus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
• Brown scale: Saissetia coffeae Walker (Hemiptera: Coccidae)
• Green scale: Coccus viridis Green (Hemiptera: Coccidae)
• Cock chafers or white grubs: Holotrichia spp. (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae)
• Hairy caterpillars: Eupterote spp. (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae)
• Coffee bean beetle: Araecerus fasciculatus (De. Geer) (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)
• Red coffee borer: Zeuzera coffeae Nietner (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)

Diseases

• Coffee leaf rust: Hemileia vastatrix (Berk.)
• Black rot or koleroga: Corticium salmonicolor Berk. & Broome

Root diseases

• Brown root disease: Fomes noxius Corner
• Red root disease: Poria hypolateritia Berk.
• Sandavery root disease: Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. coffeae
• Coffee trunk canker: Ceratocystis fimbriata (Ell. & Halst)
• Berry blotch: Cercospora coffeicola (Cooke) Stev. & Wellman
• Brown eye spot disease: Mycosphaerella coffeicola (Cooke) Stev. & Wellman
• Coffee berry disease: Colletotrichum kahawae Waller & Bridge
• Coffee wilt disease: Fusarium xylarioides Steyaert
• Coffee bark disease: Fusarium stilboides Wollenw
• Damping off/Collar rot: Pellicularia filamentosa (Pat.) Rogers, Rhizoctonia solani Kühn
• Die back/ Anthracnose: Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Mitchell.

Weeds

Broadleaf

• Slender amaranth: Amaranthus viridis L. (Amaranthaceae)
• Climbing dayflower: Commelina diffusa L. (Commelinaceae)
• Puncture vine: Tribulus terrestis L. (Zygophyllaceae)
• Purslane: Portulaca oleracea L. (Portulacaceae)
• Garden spurge: Euphorbia hirta L. (Euphorbiaceae)

Grasses

• Bermuda grass: Cynodonn dactylon (L.) Pers. (Poaceae)
• Large crabgrass: Digitaria sanguinalis L. (Poaceae)
• Purple top chloris: Chloris barbata Swartz (Poaceae)

Sedges

• Purple nutsedge: Cyperus rotundus L. (Cyperaceae)

Nematodes

• Lesion Nematode: Pratylenchus coffeae Goodey (Tylenchida: Pratylenchidae)
• Root-knot Nematode: Meloidogyne incognita Kofoid & White (Tylenchida: Meloidogynidae)

Non insect pests

• Mollusc: Giant coffee snail: Achatina fulica Férussac
• Rodents and Bats.

IPM for Coffee

To know the IPM practices for Coffee, click here.

Source: NIPHM; Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage