PLANT PROTECTION 1 – Pests, Diseases and Weeds

PLANT PROTECTION 1 – Pests, Diseases and Weeds
LIST OF SOME
SPECIES
(contd)
LEAFHOPPERS.
(contd)
FROGHOPPERS.
COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME HOST RANGE
(not exhaustive)
LEAFHOPPERS (Family Cicadellidae)
Apple leafhopper,
canary fly (Tas)
Edwardsiana australia Apples, crab apples, prunes
Common brown Orosius argentatus
Vegetables, ornamentals, field
leafhopper
crops, weeds. Spreads tomato
big bud/greening phytoplasma
Elm leafhopper Ribautiana ulmi Elm, Alnus subcordata sp.
Glassy winged
sharpshooter (GWSS)
Homalodisca coagulata
Overseas, a serious pest of
horticultural crops. Spreads
Pierce’s disease of grapes.
Broadleaved plants, vegetables,
ornamentals, weeds
Vegetable leafhopper, Austroasca viridigrisea
tomato leafhopper (Qld)
FROGHOPPERS, PLANTHOPPERSA, TREEHOPPERS (several families)
Froghoppers
Green treehopper
Gumtree hoppers
Passionvine hopper
Family Cercopidae
Sextius virescens
Eurymela spp.
Scolypopa australis
Turf planthopper Toya dryope Turf
Native plants
Wattles
Eucalypts, wattles
Ornamentals, fruit, eg passion
vine, vegetables, eg beans
APHIDS. APHIDS (Aphididae, other families) Spread virus diseases
More than 70
Black citrus aphid Toxoptera citricidus Mainly citrus, sometimes
introduced species of
other Rutaceae
aphids, most native
species are
not a problem
Recent
introduction
A parasitic wasp
(Aphidius sonchi) was
introduced to control
sowthislte aphid
LERPS.
Not known
in Australia
Lerps on eucalypts
Black peach aphid
Blue-green aphid
Cabbage aphid
Cherry aphid
Cotton aphid
Brachycaudus persicae
Acyrthosiphon kondii
Brevicoryne brassicae
Myzus cerasi
Aphis gossypii
Peach, other stone fruit
Lucerne, other legumes
Brassicaceae, vegetables,
ornamentals and weeds
Cherry
Wide range, including cotton,
vegetables, pawpaw, citrus
Currant-lettuce aphid (Phenacoccus parvis)
WA state quarantine in Tas, Vic, NSW not in WA & Qld (2005)
Wide host range, eg lettuce,
gooseberry, red currant, weeds
Cypress pine aphid Cinara tujafilina Cypress pine (Callitris cupressi)
Grape phylloxera
Green peach aphid
Daktulosphaira vitifolii
Myzus persicae
Grapes
Peach, nectarine; ornamentals
vegetables, fruit, weeds
Lily aphid Aulacorthium circumflexum Lily, greenhouse plants
Oleander aphid
Poplar gall aphid
Aphis nerii
Pemphigus bursarius
Oleander, wild cotton
Poplar
Potato aphid, tomato Macrosiphum euphorbiae Wide range, especially
aphid (Qld)
tomato, potato, rose,
gladiolus, weeds
Turnip aphid Lipaphis erysimi Brassicas, eg, vegetables,
stock, weeds
Bean root aphid Smynthurodes betae Cotton seedlings, French bean
Rose aphid
Rose-grain aphid
Woolly aphid
Macrosiphum rosae
Metopolophium dirhodum
Eriosoma lanigerum
Roses
Cereals
Apples, crab apples, rarely
pears, occasionally hawthorn,
cotoneaster, firethorn
Sowthistle aphid Hyperomyzus lacturae Sowthistle, thought to carry the
virus necrotic yellows of lettuce
LERPS, PSYLLIDS (Family Psyllidae)
Asian citrus psylla Diaphorina citri
Bellbird psyllid Glycaspis baileyi
Boronia psyllid Ctenarytaina thysanura
Brown basket lerp Cardiaspina fiscella
Citrus spp., other Rutaceae
Eucalypts
Boronia
Eucalypt
Morton Bay fig pysllid Mycopsylla fici Morton Bay fig
Hibiscus woolly psyllid Heterpsylla cubana Hibiscus
Kurrajong star psyllid
Kurrajong twig psyllid
Protyora sterculiae
Aconopsylla sterculiae
Kurrajong
Kurrajong
Insects and allied pests - Hemiptera (bugs, aphids, etc) 143