Dear Vidyasagar

The picture posted in the Willemstad report appears to be that of RPW
- but the photo was not from Curacao!

A Google image search for Rhynchophorus ferrigineus attributes the
same picture to www.palms.org where it is number one of ten pictures
in an article in the International Palm Scoiety journal
<http://www.palms.org/palmsjournal/2002/ferry_1.jpg>

With all due respect to Gerard van Buurt, Head of the Fisheries
Sector, Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries,
Curaçao, <gvbuurt@...> we need to know made the
identification of the Curacao Rhynchophorus as ferriguneus [note
mispelling] before going any further.

Hugh

--- In RPWgroup@yahoogroups.com, "vidyasagar49" <vidyasagar49@...> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Dr. Hugh Harries,
> The vector of red ring disease caused by nematode, Bursaphelenchus
> cocophilus, is Palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum. This species is
> known to occur in this region for a long time. However, the report from
> Willemstad, Curacao is about Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus ferriguneus.
> The RPW is not implicated in transimission of nematode diseases. The
> picture posted in the Willemstad report appears to be that of RPW.
> Hence, it should be considered as the appearance of a new species in
> that region.
>
> Vidyasagar, PSPV
>
>
> --- In RPWgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Hugh Harries" <harrieshc@> wrote:
> >
> > Khalid
> >
> > The article is reporting palm weevil in Curacao but it has been in the
> > Caribbean since the 1960s - in Trinidad, where it is implicated in the
> > spread of the nematode that causes red ring of coconut.
> >
> > Hugh
> > Coconut Time Line http://cocos.arecaceae.com/
> >
> >
> > --- In RPWgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Khalid" alhudaib2002@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear Members:
> > >
> > > RPW in Caribbeanş, for more information please go to
> > >
> > > http://www.redpalmweevil.com/newlook/RPWReport/Caribbean.htm
> > >
> > > Regard
> > >
> > > Dr. Khalid Alhudaib
> > >
> >
>