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| Common name: | Wheat Aphid; Greenbug |
| Ethiopian name: | Yesinde Kish Kish |
| Order: | Homoptera |
| Family: | Aphididae |
| HOSTS: | |
| Main hosts: | Many cereals and grasses |
| IMPORTANCE IN ETHIOPIA: | |
| Major pest of: | Wheat |
| Minor pest of: | Barley |
| DAMAGE: | |
| The aphids are found in colonies on the plants. Sap sucking on the leaves often causes yellowing and other phytotoxic effects. This species is known to be a vector of virus diseases. | |
| INSECT BIOLOGY & RECOGNITION: | |
| Apterae: | The apterae are small aphids with a rather elongate oval shape. The head and prothorax are yellowish or greenish straw coloured. The rest of the thorax and the abdomen are yellowish green to bluish green with a darker spinal stripe. |
| Alatae: | In alatae the head and prothorax are brownish yellow. The abdomen is yellowish green to dark green. |
| In both apterae and alatae the siphunculi are pale but usually have dark apices. Apterae and alatae are 1.3-2.1 mm long. | |
| REMARK: | |
| Several other species of aphids have been recorded on cereals in Ethiopia. |
Text adapted from:
INSECT PESTS OF CEREALS IN ETHIOPIA identification and control methods by Hein Bijlmakers, FAO/UNDP Project ETH/86/029 Crop Protection Phase II, Addis Ababa, October 1989
