Table 3.

Mealybug and cacao leaf collections for DNA barcoding and CSSV screening

Location (state)	Trees inspected	Mealybugs collected				Cacao leaves collected
		leaf	pod	trunk (stem)	total	symptomatic †	asymptomatic	total
Oyo	234	103	46	19	168	132	439	571
Ondo	218	69	42	17	128	109	423	532
Cross River	214	53	27	14	94	103	419	522
Abia	174	24	16	4	44	51	380	431
Akwa Ibom	118	18	11	8	37	43	245	288
Edo	94	28	14	13	55	39	185	224
Total	1052	295	156	75	526	477	2091	2568

^†Based on visual symptoms of an archetypical CSSV infected cacao plant which include leaf chlorosis, interveinal chlorosis with mottling and swollen shoots in very severe cases