Check List 20(1): 47-52, doi: 10.15560/20.1.47

First natural occurrence of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Bals. Criv.) Vuill. on Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar, 1824) (Curculionidae, Coleoptera) in an agroforestry system in the Brazilian Cerrado

Carlos de Melo e Silva-Neto^‡§, Francisco J. Simões Calaça^§, Wander Gomes de Souza^§, Leovigildo Aparecido Costa Santos^§, Iara Jaime de Pina^‡, Solange Xavier-Santos^§, Francine Neves Calil^|

‡ Instituto Federal de Educação, Cidade de Goiás, Brazil§ Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Anápolis, Brazil| Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

Corresponding author: Carlos de Melo e Silva-Neto ( carloskoa@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Roger Fagner Ribeiro Melo

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Citation: Silva-Neto CM, Calaça FJS, Souza WG, Santos LAC, Pina IJ, Xavier-Santos S, Calil FN (2024) First natural occurrence of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Bals. Criv.) Vuill. on Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar, 1824) (Curculionidae, Coleoptera) in an agroforestry system in the Brazilian Cerrado. Check List 20(1): 47-52. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.1.47

Abstract

The natural occurrence of the fungus Beauveria bassiana is an indicator of environmental balance. When the agroforestry system naturally presents this entomopathogenic fungus on the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus, a pest insect in the banana crops, it reinforces the beneficial effects of this agroecosystem. Thus, this work reports the first natural occurrence of B. bassiana on C. sordidus for the agroforestry system and the Cerrado biome. The natural occurrence of this parasitic relationship indicates that the agroforestry system may favor the fungal occurrence and spread.

Keywords

Banana Weevil, biological control, Cordycipitaceae, pathogenicity