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* Loomans AJM, Heijboer A, Vierbergen G (1998) Host plant performances of Thrips palmi Karny (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with particular reference to Ficus (Moraceae). Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Thysanoptera (Antalya, TR, 1998-04-27/05-01), 99-105.
------- Considered as a host plant.

* O'Donnell CA, Parrella MP (2005) Host suitability of selected Ficus species for Thrips palmi (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Florida Entomologist 88(1), 97-98.
-------- Ficus spp.  are considered to be unsuitable hosts.

* Sjöman H, Östberg J & Nilsson J (2014) Review of host trees for the wood-boring pests Anoplophora glabripennis and Anoplophora chinensis: an urban forest perspective. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 40(3), 143–164.

* Marlatt RB (1966) Ficus elastica a host of Aphelenchoides besseyi in a sub-tropical climate. Plant Disease Reporter 50, 689-691.

* Marlatt RB (1975) Control of foliar nematode, Aphelenchoides besseyi, in Ficus elastica ‘Decora’. Plant Disease Reporter 59, 4.

* Singh AP, Bhandari RS, Verma TD (2004) Important insect pests of poplars in agroforestry and strategies for their management in northwestern India. Agroforestry Systems 63, 15–26.

* Singh P, Prasad G (1985) Poplar stem borer, Apriona cinerea Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) its biology, ecology and control. Indian
Forester 111(7), 517-524.

* Pencheva A, Yovkova M (2016) Review of Ceroplastes Gray 1828 in Bulgaria with first report of C. cirripediformis Comstock 1881. Silva Balcanica 17(2), 37-44.

* Goodey JB, Franklin MT, Hooper DJ (1965) T. Goodey's: The Nematode Parasites of Plants Catalogued Under Their Hosts. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, Bucks, England. Third edition, 214 pp.

* Atkinson TH (online) Bark and Ambrosia Beetles. https://www.barkbeetles.info/index.php (last accessed 2021-07).

* Government of Western Australia. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. Polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB). Australian Host List (version 24.0 - 2024-09-30). https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/sites/gateway/files/PSHB-WA-Host-List_2.pdf
------- Reproductive host in Western Australia.

* Government of Western Australia. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. Polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB). Australian Host List (version 24.0 - 2024-09-30). https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/sites/gateway/files/PSHB-WA-Host-List_2.pdf
------- Reproductive host in Western Australia.

* Smith SM, Gomez DF, Beaver RA, Hulcr J, Cognato AI (2019) Reassessment of the species in the Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) complex after the rediscovery of the ‘lost’ type specimen. Insects 10, 261. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10090261

* Moreton BD (1974) Opogona sacchari, an important pest of Ficus elastica decora. Plant Pathology. 23 (4), 163-164. 

* van der Gaag DJ, van der Straten M, Ramel JM, Baufeld P , Schrader G (2013) Pest Risk Analysis for Opogona sacchari. Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority. 48 pp. Available at https://pra.eppo.int/pra/2823b66f-ce73-48eb-8272-082124412092.
------- intercepted in consignments of plants for planting.

* Parrella G, Gognalons P, Gebre-Selassie K, Vovlas C, Marchoux G (2003) An update of the host range of tomato spotted wilt virus. Journal of Plant Pathology 85(4), 227-264.
------- Confirmed host. As Ficus elastica, Ficus elastica cv Decora and Ficus elastica cv Variegata.

* Klassen W, Seal DR, Ciomperlik MA, Fieslemann DA (2008) The chilli thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis: current status in the Greater Caribbean Region. Proceeedings of the Caribbean food crops society,  44(1), 103-117.
------- reproductive host in Florida.

* Ahmed MZ, McKenzie CL, Revynthi AM, Evans GA, Mottern JL, Mannion CM, Osborne LS (2022) Pest status, survey of natural enemies, and a management plan for the whitefly Singhiella simplex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in the United States. Journal of Integrated Pest Management, 13(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/jipm/pmac007

* Aguilar-Perez H, Rodriguez-del-Bosque LA, Aguilar-Perez CH, de la Pena ND (2007) Seasonal abundance of Xyleborus ferrugineus (Coleoptera : Curculionidae) on pecan trees in northern Coahuila, Mexico. Southwestern Entomologist 32, 105-109. 

* Ghotbi T (2013) Serological and molecular detection of INSV and introduction of some INSV ornamental host plants from five provinces in Iran. Iranian Journal of Plant Pathology 49 (1), 41.
------- Tested only by ELISA.