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Common name

Scientific name

Order: Family

Host crop

Mode of damage

Sources

Sugarcane leafhopper

Pyrilla perpusilla

W.

Hemiptera; Fulgoridae

Sorghum, pearl millet, sugarcane, etc.

Sucks phloem sap from leaves and excretes honeydew onto foliage, leading to fungal diseases. This direct and indirect damage affects sugar yield and quality.

Perry and Perry (

1989

)

Acacia white fly

Tetraleurodes acacia

Q.

Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae

Acacia

Feeds by tapping into the phloem of plants, injecting toxic saliva and decreasing the overall turgor pressure of plants.

John et

al. (

2007

) and

Srinivasa (

2000

)

Thrips

Scirtothrips aurantii

F.

Thysanoptera; Thripidae

Eucalyptus, citrus, etc.

Immature and adult thrips prefer to feed on young leaves in the inner neck of plants and cause severe damage by sucking the cell sap.

Mirab-Balou et

al.

(^2011

) and Loomans

and Van Lenteren (^1995

)

Insect-Pests in Dryland Agriculture and their Integrated Management