About Lesson
Scarlet mite ( Brevipalpus californicus: Acarina, Tennipalpidae)
Host: tea, coffee, citrus.
- Tiny and fast-growing
- Not observed with nacked
- Deep orange to purple with 8
- Flat elongated and oval in
- Eggs are bright red and oval sticky with the ventral surface of the leaf.
- Nymphs are flat bodies, oval in outline and scarlet in color.
Symptoms
- Feed leaves sap by scarping
- Brown discoloration of leaves.
- The bark and leaf petiole of the affected shoot turn brown and dry.