Pomegranate Pests

Pests of National Significance

Insect pests

• Anar butterfly: Deudorix (Virachola) isocrates Fabricus (Lepidoptera: Lycanidae)
• Stem borer: Coelosterna spinator Febricius (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
• Whitefly: Siphorinus phillyreae Haliday (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
• Shot hole borer: Xyleborus perforans Wollastan (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)
• Thrips: Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood or Rhiphiphorothrips cruentatus Hood (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
• Fruit borers: Conogethes punctiferalis, (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Diseases

• Bacterial leaf and fruit spot: Xanthomonas axonopodies pv. punicae (Hingorani and Singh) Vauterin et al.
• Leaf and fruit spot: Pseudocercospora punicae (Hennings) Deighton
• Anthracnose: Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Sacc.
• Wilt: Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht.

Pests of Regional Significance:

Insect pests

• Pomegranate aphid: Aphis punicae Passerini (Homoptera: Aphididae)
• Mealy bugs: Ferrisia virgata Cockerell (Homoptera: Coccidae)
• Fruit borer: Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
• Fruit sucking moth: Eudocima spp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Diseases

• Fruit scab: Speciloma sp.
• Leaf spot: Alternaria sp. and Cercospora sp.
• Fruit rot: Phytophthora spp., Aspergillus foetidus Thom & Raper

IPM for Pomegranate

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