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Example of Toxicogenic insects and their Disease
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Example of Toxicogenic insects and their Disease

Agriculturist Musa June 20, 2018

Contents

  • 1 Examples of Toxicogenic insects and their Disease (Toxicoses)
    • 1.1 Example of Bacterial disease and their Vectors 
    • 1.2 Example of Fungal disease and their Vectors
    • 1.3 Example of Viral disease and their Vectors

Examples of Toxicogenic insects and their Disease (Toxicoses)

Common name                   Scientific name                    Name of disease

1 Potato leafhopper            Empoasca fabae                   Hopper burn of potato.

2 Cercopid                          Tomaspis inclusa                 Frog hopper blight of sugarcane.

3 Pineapple mealy bug        Dysmicoccus brevipes.       Mealy  bug  wilt  of  pineapple,

Green  spotting of pineapple.

4 Psyllid bug                   Bactericera (=Paratrioza)        Psyllid yellows of potatoes.
cockerelli

5 Squash bug                  Anasa tristis                             Anasa wilt of cucurbits

Example of Bacterial disease and their Vectors 

Name of Disease                         Common name  (Vector)                   Scientific name  (Vector)

1 Bacterial wilt of cucurbits       Cucumber beetle                    Diabrotica vittata D. undecimpunctata 

2. Bacterial wilt of corn               Corn flea beetle                                Chaetocnema pulicaria  

3. Bacterial wilt of solanaceae     Potato beetle                                     Leptinotarsa decemlineata 

4. Black rot of crucifers               Cabbage worm                                  Pieris brassicae 

5. Bean bacteriosis                       Thrips                                                Heliothrips fomoralis  

6. Potato black leg                        Seed corn maggot                             Delia platura  

7. Soft rot of crucifers                  Cabbage maggot                                Delia radicum 

Example of Fungal disease and their Vectors

Name of Disease                    Common name  (Vector)                  Scientific name  (Vector)

1. Wilt of cotton                      Grasshoppers                                    Melanoplus differentialis  

2. Red rot of sugarcane           Sugarcane stem borer, Weevil          Diatraea saccharalis  

3. Black leg of cabbage           Cabbage maggot                              Hylemya brassicae 

4. Potato scab                          Flea beetle                                        Epitrix cucumeris  

5. Leaf spot of tomato             Flea beetle                                        Epitrix cucumeris  

6. Sooty mould of orange        White fly                                          Aleyrodes citri 

7. Ergot of cereals & grasses   Carabid beetle, Flies                       Carabus spp. Sciara thomae

Example of Viral disease and their Vectors

Name of Disease                 Common name (Vector)                   Scientific name  (Vector)

1. Tungro disease of rice     Green leafhoppers                              Nephotettix virescens 

2. Dwarf disease of rice       Green leafhoppers                              Nephotettix nigropictus 

3. Cucumber mosaic            Aphid                                                  Aphis gossypii  

4. Tobacco mosaic               Aphid                                                  Myzus persicae  

5. Pumpkin mosaic              Cucumber beetles                               Diabrotica vittata 

6. Spotted wilt of tomato     Thrips                                                 Thrips tabaci  

7. Spindle tuber of potato    Grasshoppers                                      Melanoplus spp.

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