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List of pests-diseases-weeds for crop/product: Cacao (Theobroma cacao)

Information on all pests, diseases and weeds can be found in the downloadable Excel files
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diseases:

Basidiomycota:

Marasmiellus scandens
Marasmius crinis-equi
Marasmius palmivorus
Marasmius tenuissimus

Other fungal-like organisms:

Phytophthora megakarya
Phytophthora palmivora

Plant viruses:

Cacao red vein virus
Cacao swollen shoot disease
Cacao swollen shoot Togo B virus

pests:

Hemiptera - Heteroptera (plantsucking):

Distantiella theobroma
Sahlbergella singularis

Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha:

Aphis aurantii
Aspidiotus elaeidis
Ferrisia virgata
Formicococcus njalensis
Mesohomotoma tessmanni
Parastictococcus multispinosus
Phenacoccus hargreavesi
Planococcus citri
Pseudococcus calceolariae
Pseudococcus concavocerarii
Pseudocribrolecanium andersoni
Stictococcus sjostedti

Other insect orders (plant/storage pests):

Crematogaster africana
Euscyrtus bivittatus

weeds:

Eudicotyledons (other orders):

Tapinanthus bangwensis (weed)