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Mealybugs are reported to be injurious to papaya plantation in several countries (Table 42.1). Papaya hardly suffers heavily from insect damage in India until the recent introduction of the mealybug Paracoccus marginatus Williams & Granara de Willink which had caused heavy loss to papaya growers (Muniappan et al. 2008).

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Mani, M., Kalyanasundaram, M., Shivaraju, C. (2016). Fruit Crops: Papaya. In: Mani, M., Shivaraju, C. (eds) Mealybugs and their Management in Agricultural and Horticultural crops . Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2677-2_42

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