Bixadus sierricola (West African coffee borer)

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Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

• Bixadus sierricola White, 1858

Preferred Common Name

• West African coffee borer

Other Scientific Names

• Monohammus sierricola White

International Common Names

• English: coffee stem borer
• Spanish: barrenador del cafeto
• French: monohamme; perceur du caféier

Local Common Names

• Germany: Bohrer, Westafrikanischer Kaffee-

EPPO code

• BIXASI (Bixadus sierricola)

Taxonomic Tree

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Metazoa
•         Phylum: Arthropoda
•             Subphylum: Uniramia
•                 Class: Insecta
•                     Order: Coleoptera
•                         Family: Cerambycidae
•                             Genus: Bixadus
•                                 Species: Bixadus sierricola

Distribution Table

The distribution in this summary table is based on all the information available. When several references are cited, they may give conflicting information on the status. Further details may be available for individual references in the Distribution Table Details section which can be selected by going to Generate Report.

Habitat List

Host plants/Plants Affected

Growth Stages

List of Symptoms

Natural Enemies

References

Baguena Corella L, 1942. Observations on harmful longicorns several tree crops and especially cocoa and coffee in the Spanish Territories of the Gulf of Guinea. (Observaciones sobre Longicornios perjudiciales a varios cultivos arboreos y especialmente a los cacao y cafe en los Territorios Españolas del Golfo de Guinea.) Publicación Dirección de Agricultura de los Territorios Españolas del Golfo de Guinea, 6:39-91.

CABI/EPPO, 2005. Bixadus sierricola. Distribution Maps of Plant Pests, No. 670. Wallingford, UK: CAB International.

Duffy EAJ, 1957. A monograph of the immature stages of African timber beetles (Cerambycidae). London, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), vii + 338 pp.

Duffy EAJ, 1968. A Monograph of the Immature Stages of African Timber Beetles. London, UK: British Museum (Natural History), 338 pp.

EPPO, 2014. PQR database. Paris, France: European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization. http://www.eppo.int/DATABASES/pqr/pqr.htm

Fonseca Ferrão APS, 1965. Brocas do tronco do cafe. 3 + ] 13 pp.

Lepesme P, Paulian R, 1943. [English title not available]. (Une Tachinaire parasite des larves du monhamme du cafiéir.) Revue Zoologique et Botanique africaine, 37:89-92.

Lepesme P, Villiers A, 1944. The longicorn beetles attacking coffee in equatorial Africa. (Les longicornes du cafeier en Afrique intertropicale.) Travaux Sect. tech. Agric. trop. Minist. colon. France. Ser, 1:27-70.

Mallamaire A, 1933. [English Title not available]. (Les Borers du Caféier en Basse Côte d'Ivoire. Le Monohammus siemcola, White et l'Apate monachus, F. dangereux parasites des caféiers dans le Sud-Est de la Basse Cote d'Ivoire (Cerele d'Assinie).) Bull. Com. Afr. occid. fr, 15(2-3):425-455 pp.

Mallamaire A, 1955. [English title not available]. (Les principaux insectes foreurs des tiges rameeaux ou stipes des plantes cultivees dans l'Ouest Africain.) Bulletin de la protection des végétaux, 2:61-100.

Mayne R, 1923, December. [English Title not available]. (Principaux ennemis des caféiers au Congo belge.) Annales de Gembloux, 29(12):377-384 pp.

Padi B, 1984. Report, Cocoa Research Institute, Ghana. 99-105.

Padi B, Adu-Acheampong R, 2001. An integrated pest management strategy for the control of the coffee stem borer, Bixadus sierricola White (Coleoptera: Lamiidae). In: 19ème Colloque Scientifique International sur le Café, Trieste, Italy, 14-18 mai 2001. Paris, France: Association Scientifique Internationale du Café (ASIC), 1-5.

Pascoe FP, 1868. Contributions to a knowledge of the Coleoptera. Part 1. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, 1868. xix.

Tapley RG, 1960. The white coffee borer, Anthores leuconotus Pasc., and its control. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 51:279-301.

Vayssiere P, 1955. [English title not available]. (Les animaux parasites du caféier.) In: Les Caféiers et les Cafés dans le Monde [ed. by Coste, R.]. Paris, France: Larose, 233-318.

White A, 1858. Description of Monochamus bowringii, Batocera una, and other longicorn Coleoptera, apparently as yet undescribed. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 26:398-413.

Distribution Maps

• = Present, no further details
• = Evidence of pathogen
• = Widespread
• = Last reported
• = Localised
• = Presence unconfirmed
• = Confined and subject to quarantine
• = See regional map for distribution within the country
• = Occasional or few reports

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