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* Lake J (1998) Getting control of weevil borers and leaf beetles in palms. The Nursery Papers. 1998-02. Nursery Industry Association of Australia, 4 pp.
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* Howard FW, Mead FW (1980) A survey of Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Homoptera) associated with palms in southern Florida. Tropical Agriculture 57(2), pp.145-153.
--------- Adult host.
* 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.
* Gurr GM, Johnson AC, Ash GJ, Wilson BA, Ero MM, Pilotti CA, Dewhurst CF, You MS (2016) Coconut lethal yellowing diseases: a phytoplasma threat to palms of global economic and social significance. Frontiers in plant science 7, 1521. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01521
* Melo JWS, Navia D, Mendes, Rosenya JA, Filgueiras MC,. Teodoro AV, Ferreira JMS, Guzzo EC, de Souza IV, de Mendonça RS, Calvet EC, Paz Neto AA, Gondim MGC, de Morais EGF, Godoy MS, dos Santos JR, Silva RIR, da Silva VB, Norte RF, Oliva AB, dos Santos RDP, Domingos CA (2018) The invasive red palm mite, Raoiella indica Hirst (Acari: Tenuipalpidae), in Brazil: range extension and arrival into the most threatened area, the Northeast Region, International Journal of Acarology, 44:4-5, 146-149, DOI: 10.1080/01647954.2018.1474945
------- confirmed host
* Landero-Torres I, Presa-Parra E, Elena Galindo-Tovar M, Leyva-Ovalle OR, Murguía-González J, Valenzuela-González JE & García-Martínez MA (2015) Variación temporal y espacial de la abundancia del picudo negro (Rhynchophorus palmarum L., Coleoptera: Curculionidae) en cultivos de palmas ornamentales del centro de Veracruz, México. Southwestern Entomologist 40(1), 179-188.
* Jansen MGM (2001) Instar identification and some notes about the life cycle of Rhizoecus hibisci Kawai ; Takagi (Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e di Bachicoltura, Serie II, 33(3), 53-56.
* Suffert M, Chérasse S, Ouvrard D (2024) New host plant records for Ripersiella hibisci (Hemiptera: Rhizoecidae) following recent outbreaks in Europe. EPPO Bulletin 54(2), 147-150.
* EFSA (2024) Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – Systematic literature search up to 31 December 2023. EFSA Journal 22, e8898. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8898
------- Subspecies unknown.