Pest & Disease Encyclopedia

A

• Anthracnose of chilli (fruit rot and dieback) — Colletotrichum scovillei and Colletotrichum truncatum
• Anthracnose of mango — Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex
• Asian citrus psyllid — Diaphorina citri
• Asian rice gall midge — Orseolia oryzae
• Asian soybean rust — Phakopsora pachyrhizi

B

• Bacterial leaf blight of rice — Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
• Bacterial wilt (Ralstonia wilt, brown rot of potato) — Ralstonia solanacearum species complex
• Banana bunchy top disease (BBTV) — Banana bunchy top virus
• Barnyard grass — Echinochloa crus-galli
• Bird cherry-oat aphid — Rhopalosiphum padi
• Black Sigatoka (black leaf streak of banana) — Pseudocercospora fijiensis
• Blossom-end rot — Physiological calcium disorder (no pathogen)
• Brown planthopper — Nilaparvata lugens
• Brown spot of rice — Bipolaris oryzae

C

• Cassava mealybug — Phenacoccus manihoti
• Cassava mosaic disease — Cassava mosaic begomoviruses (African cassava mosaic virus and relatives)
• Chilli leaf curl disease — Chilli leaf curl virus and related begomoviruses
• Citrus greening (huanglongbing, HLB) — 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus'
• Citrus gummosis (Phytophthora foot rot) — Phytophthora citrophthora and Phytophthora nicotianae
• Codling moth — Cydia pomonella
• Coffee berry borer — Hypothenemus hampei
• Coffee leaf rust — Hemileia vastatrix
• Colorado potato beetle — Leptinotarsa decemlineata
• Cotton aphid (melon aphid) — Aphis gossypii
• Cotton bollworm (Old World bollworm) — Helicoverpa armigera

D

• Damping-off of seedlings — Pythium aphanidermatum and other soil-borne pathogens
• Desert locust — Schistocerca gregaria
• Diamondback moth — Plutella xylostella
• Downy mildew of cucurbits — Pseudoperonospora cubensis
• Downy mildew of grapevine — Plasmopara viticola
• Downy mildew of pearl millet (green ear disease) — Sclerospora graminicola
• Downy mildews of maize and sorghum — Peronosclerospora sorghi

E

• Early blight of potato and tomato — Alternaria solani
• Eggplant fruit and shoot borer (brinjal borer) — Leucinodes orbonalis

F

• Fall armyworm — Spodoptera frugiperda
• False smut of rice — Ustilaginoidea virens
• Fusarium head blight (head scab) of wheat and barley — Fusarium graminearum
• Fusarium wilt of banana (Panama disease, TR4) — Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense
• Fusarium wilt of chickpea — Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris
• Fusarium wilt of tomato — Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici

G

• Golden apple snail (channeled apple snail) — Pomacea canaliculata
• Green peach aphid — Myzus persicae
• Grey mould (Botrytis) — Botrytis cinerea
• Guava wilt — Nalanthamala psidii and Fusarium species

K

• Karnal bunt of wheat (partial bunt) — Tilletia indica

L

• Late blight of potato and tomato — Phytophthora infestans
• Leaf rust of wheat (brown rust) — Puccinia triticina

M

• Maize lethal necrosis (MLN) — Maize chlorotic mottle virus together with a potyvirus
• Maize weevil — Sitophilus zeamais
• Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) — Ceratitis capitata
• Melon fly — Zeugodacus cucurbitae

O

• Onion thrips — Thrips tabaci
• Oriental fruit fly — Bactrocera dorsalis

P

• Palmer amaranth — Amaranthus palmeri
• Papaya leaf curl disease — Papaya leaf curl virus and related begomoviruses
• Papaya mealybug — Paracoccus marginatus
• Papaya ringspot disease (PRSV) — Papaya ringspot virus
• Parthenium weed (congress grass) — Parthenium hysterophorus
• Pink bollworm — Pectinophora gossypiella
• Pink hibiscus mealybug — Maconellicoccus hirsutus
• Potato cyst nematodes (golden and pale) — Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pallida
• Powdery mildew of cucurbits — Podosphaera xanthii
• Powdery mildew of grapevine — Erysiphe necator
• Powdery mildew of mango — Erysiphe alphitoides (syn. Oidium mangiferae)
• Powdery mildew of wheat and barley — Blumeria graminis

R

• Red palm weevil — Rhynchophorus ferrugineus
• Red rot of sugarcane — Colletotrichum falcatum
• Rice blast — Pyricularia oryzae
• Rice leaf folder — Cnaphalocrocis medinalis
• Rice tungro disease — Rice tungro bacilliform virus and rice tungro spherical virus
• Root-knot nematodes — Meloidogyne incognita

S

• Septoria tritici blotch of wheat — Zymoseptoria tritici
• Serpentine leafminer (Liriomyza leafminers) — Liriomyza trifolii
• Sheath blight of rice — Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA
• Silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia whitefly) — Bemisia tabaci
• Spotted stem borer — Chilo partellus
• Spotted wing drosophila — Drosophila suzukii
• Stem rust of wheat (black rust) — Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici
• Striga (purple witchweed) — Striga hermonthica

T

• Tobacco cutworm (Asian armyworm) — Spodoptera litura
• Tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta) — Phthorimaea absoluta
• Tomato yellow leaf curl disease (TYLCV) — Tomato yellow leaf curl virus
• Two-spotted spider mite (red spider mite) — Tetranychus urticae

W

• Western flower thrips — Frankliniella occidentalis
• Wheat blast — Pyricularia oryzae Triticum lineage
• White grubs (root-feeding chafer larvae) — Holotrichia consanguinea
• Whitebacked planthopper — Sogatella furcifera

Y

• Yellow mosaic of mung bean, black gram and soybean (YMD) — Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus and Mungbean yellow mosaic virus
• Yellow rust of wheat (stripe rust) — Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici
• Yellow stem borer (rice) — Scirpophaga incertulas