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.