EPPO Global Database

Digitaria eriantha(DIGER)

Pests

Organism Type
Haplaxius crudus (MYNDCR) Host
* Howard FW (1989) Evaluation of six species of grasses as breeding hosts of Myndus crudus, a vector of lethal yellowing of palms. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society vol. XXV, 433-438.
------- Nymph host.
Prostephanus truncatus (PROETR) Host
* Muatinte BL, Van den Berg J (2022) Modeling the influence of abiotic and biotic factors on spatial and temporal fluctuations of Prostephanus truncatus (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) populations in Mozambique. Environmental Entomology 51(1), 118-131.
Spodoptera frugiperda (LAPHFR) Host
* Montezano DG, Specht A, Sosa-Gómez DR, Roque-Specht VF, Sousa-Silva JC, Paula-Moraes SV, Peterson JA, Hunt T (2018) Host plants of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the Americas. African Entomology 26, 286-300.