The most important pests in forests and Rangelands of Hormozgan province with emphasize on new pests

Hormozgan province has an area of more than five million hectares of forests and rangelands. Saharo-sindian and Irano-Toranian plants are distributed in Hormozgan province naturally. To identify and study the harmful factors of forest and rangeland pests, samplings have been visited several times during 2015-2020. These studies included pest collection, prognosis, prevention, and control, as well as identification of order, family, genus, and species. The samples of pests were identified applying the CTAB method and COI amplified. Further analyses were done, including DNA genomic extraction and using SSR markers, including LCO1490 and HCO 2198 primers. Nine species of pests were collected and identified in Hormozgan agricultural research and natural resources and education center. The important pests identified included Thiacidas postica Walker (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Streblote helpsi (Holloway) (Lasiocampidae: Lepidoptera), Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) (Orthoptera: Acrididae), Hystrix leucura (Sykes) (Rodentia: Hystridae), The longhorn beetle of the family Cerambycidae, xylophagous beetle of the family Buprestidae, Nysius cymoides (Spinola) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), Vanessa carduie (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). There are three new emerging pests causing severe damage to the forests, including Streblote helpsi Holloway (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae), a beetle from Cerambicidae, and an un-identified bark borer on Prosopis cineraria. The purpose of this study was to identify the most important pests of forests and rangeland in Hormozgan province with emphasis on new emerging pests to manage and control these pests.