The First Report for the Presence of Spiroplasma and Rickettsia in Red Palm Weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Egypt.
Mona AwadAbdoallah SharafTahany Abd ElrahmanHassan Mohamed El-SaadanyOmnia Abdullah ElKralySherif M ElnagdyPublished in: Acta parasitologica (2021)
This study reports the first incidence for the presence and coexistence of Spiroplasma and Rickettsia in RPW collected from Egypt. In addition, it was found that the collected individuals of RPW were closely related to a Saudi haplotype. Thus, Saudi Arabia may be the origin of infection which invaded Egypt.