Biology:Atherigona
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Short description: Genus of flies
| Atherigona | |
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| Atherigona reversura | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Muscidae |
| Genus: | Atherigona Rondani, 1856 |
Atherigona is a genus of flies in the family Muscidae.[1][2]
Pests
Larvae of some Atherigona species are important pests in cultivation of cereals, like rice and maize. Many are known as shoot flies. Some important species include:[3][4][5][6]
- Atherigona approximata (pearl millet shoot fly): affects Pennisetum typhoides, Sorghum bicolor
- Atherigona atripalpis (foxtail millet shoot fly): affects Setaria italica
- Atherigona biseta: affects Setaria italica, Setaria viridis
- Atherigona falcata (barnyard millet shoot fly): affects Echinochloa colona, Echinochloa frumentacea, Echinochloa stagnina, Panicum sumatrense
- Atherigona hyalinipennis (teff shoot fly)
- Atherigona miliaceae (finger millet shoot fly or little millet shoot fly): affects Panicum miliaceum, Panicum sumatrense
- Atherigona naqvii (wheat stem fly): affects Triticum aestivum, Zea mays
- Atherigona orientalis (tomato fly or pepper fruit fly)
- Atherigona oryzae (rice shoot fly): affects Oryza sativa, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Triticum aestivum, Zea mays
- Atherigona pulla (proso millet shoot fly): affects Panicum miliaceum, Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Setaria italica
- Atherigona punctata (Coimbatore wheat stem fly): affects Triticum aestivum
- Atherigona reversura (bermudagrass stem maggot): affects Cynodon dactylon (turf grasses)
- Atherigona simplex (kodo millet shoot fly): affects Paspalum scrobiculatum
- Atherigona soccata (sorghum shoot fly): affects Sorghum bicolor, Zea mays, Eleusine coracana
Species
See also
- List of dipterans of Sri Lanka
References
- ↑ Couri, Márcia S. (2007). "A key to the Afrotropical genera of Muscidae (Diptera)" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia (Curitiba, Brasil: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia) 24 (1): 175–184. doi:10.1590/s0101-81752007000100022. ISSN 0085-5626. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbzool/v24n1/22.pdf. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
- ↑ Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. (red.) (2011). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.". Species 2000: Reading, UK.. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/atherigona/match/1.
- ↑ Kalaisekar, A.; Padmaja, P.G.; Bhagwat, V.R.; Patil, J.V. (2017). Insect Pests of Millets: Systematics, Bionomics, and Management. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-804243-4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128042434/insect-pests-of-millets.
- ↑ Gahukar, Ruparao T; Reddy, Gadi V P; Royer, Tom (2019). "Management of Economically Important Insect Pests of Millet". Journal of Integrated Pest Management 10 (1). doi:10.1093/jipm/pmz026. ISSN 2155-7470.
- ↑ Prasad, G.S.; Babu, K.S. (2016). "Insect Pest Resistance in Pearl Millet and Small Millets". Biotic Stress Resistance in Millets. pp. 147–169. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-804549-7.00005-6. ISBN 9780128045497.
- ↑ Kalaisekar, A (2017). Insect pests of millets: systematics, bionomics, and management. London: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-804243-4. OCLC 967265246.
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