Rice Aphid

Catalogue Type

Plant Pests Catalogue

Scientific Name

Rhopalosiphum Pad

Family

Aphididae

Distinguishing Characters

Fully grown aphids are 1.2 - 2.2 mm long and dark green to grey-brown in colour.
Nymphs are lighter in colour with a reddish area at the tip of the abdomen

Host Crop

Rice, oats, barley, millet, wheat, eggplant, marrow, cotton, tobacco, potato, tomato and sugarcane

Order

Homoptera

Photo of Insect

Photo of Damaged Crop

Description

Adult and nymph root aphids suck the plant to remove the fluids.

The feeding damage causes the yellowing of leaves and stunting.

Rice root aphids are dominant in well drained soils in upland and rainfed rice.

They are not present in irrigated rice.