Morphometric and molecular discrimination of the sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari, (Zehntner, 1897) and the sorghum aphid Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904).

Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner, 1897) and Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904) are major worldwide crop pests causing direct feeding damage on sorghum and transmitting viruses to sugarcane. It is common in the scientific literature to consider these two species as synonyms, referred to as the 'sug...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Samuel Nibouche, Laurent Costet, Raul F Medina, Jocelyn R Holt, Joëlle Sadeyen, Anne-Sophie Zoogones, Paul Brown, Roger L Blackman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0241881&type=printable