Estimating the population size of Steneotarsonemus concavuscutum in coconut fruits using diagrammatic damage scales
2022
De França-Beltrão, Girleide Vieira | Monteiro, Vaneska Barbosa | Da Silva Melo, José Wagner | De Lima, Débora Barbosa | Oliveira, Anibal Ramadan | Corrêa Gondim Junior, Manoel Guedes
Predictive models based on diagrammatic scales of damage have been developed to estimate the population density of Aceria guerreronis, an important coconut pest. Steneotarsonemus concavuscutum colonizes the same habitat as A. guerreronis and causes similar lesions on fruits. The present study aims to evaluate the possibility of using predictive models developed for A. guerreronis to estimate S. concavuscutum populations. Fruits infested by S. concavuscutum were collected and evaluated according to the diagrammatic scales developed by Galvão et al. (2008) and by Sousa et al. (2017). All active forms of S. concavuscutum were accounted for. Graphical and statistical analyzes were performed to evaluate the adequacy of the predictive models. Both the models proved to be inadequate to estimate the population of S. concavuscutum, both statistically and graphically. New predictive models were proposed using the grades of the diagrammatic scales and the mean numbers of S. concavuscutum/fruit. To validate the models, new fruits were collected and evaluated by 10 examiners with both the diagrammatic scales. All active forms of S. concavuscutum were accounted for. The new predictive model based on the grades of Galvão et al. (2008) underestimated the populations of S. concavuscutum, while the model obtained from the grades of Sousa et al. (2017) generated values close to the expected, proving itself to be adequate statistically and graphically, to estimate the populations of S. concavuscutum.
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