https://revistacolombianaentomologia.univalle.edu.co/index.php/SOCOLEN <p>Revista Colombiana de Entomología (RCdE) is an open access journal, published online with a continuous periodicity (semiannual). RCdE publishes original research articles, essays, scientific notes, book reviews and obituaries related to the area of insect science in English and Spanish. It also publishes review articles on general entomological topics, called "thematic reviews", however, these are only done by request of the Editorial Committee.</p> <p>The journal focuses on papers in the area of entomology and related fields such as biodiversity, ecology, agriculture, human, veterinary and forensic medicine, physiology, systematics and taxonomy, biogeography and genetics that fall within the following topics:</p> <ul> <li>Agricultural entomology.</li> <li>Ecology and behavior.</li> <li>Insect growth and development.</li> <li>Insect anatomy and insect physiology.</li> <li>Systematic entomology.</li> <li>Medical, veterinary and forensic entomology.</li> <li>Microbiology and molecular entomology<strong>.</strong></li> </ul> <p>For details see Instructions for authors.</p> <p>Submitted articles should not be previously published and are subject to double-blind peer review. The journal requires payment from authors at the time of publication. Fees vary according to the number of published pages (with a special discount fee for SOCOLEN members).</p> Sociedad Colombiana de Entomología - SOCOLEN y Universidad del Valle - Univalle en-US Revista Colombiana de Entomología 0120-0488 <p>Authors retain the copyright on their work and are responsible for the ideas expressed in them. Once a manuscript is approved for publication, authors are asked for a publication license for the term of legal protection, for all territories that allows the use, dissemination and disclosure of the same.</p> https://revistacolombianaentomologia.univalle.edu.co/index.php/SOCOLEN/article/view/13108 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Agave is one of the most representative plant groups in Mexico. Its importance lies in its ecological, cultural, and economic value. However, it faces several limitations, especially pest infestations, one of the most important of which is the agave weevil </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scyphohphorus acupunctatus</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae), which has acquired importance because it bores the stalks into the interior of the plant, causing lesions that are subsequently infected by fungi and/or bacteria until the plant dies. The objective of this study was to determine the spatial distribution of agave weevil populations in two localities in the municipality of Malinalco using spatial analysis of the distance index, SADIE. The results showed that the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ia</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ja</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> indices of the agave weevil populations present values greater than 1, which indicates an aggregated type spatial distribution in the two plots where the study was carried out. Short-term spatial and temporal stability was also determined with the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Im</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> index. Density maps were generated for each sampling in the two plots, with the maps that were elaborated, the infested surface in each plot was calculated, the results show us the distribution of the pest, and the alternatives for sustainable management of this pest are proposed.</span></p> Melisa González Dávila José Francisco Ramírez Dávila Agustín David Acosta Guadarrama Dulce Karen Figueroa Figueroa Copyright (c) 2024 Melisa González Dávila , José Francisco Ramírez Dávila, Agustín David Acosta Guadarrama , Dulce Karen Figueroa Figueroa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2024-07-15 2024-07-15 50 2 10.25100/socolen.v50i2.13108