Morphometric and Molecular Discrimination of the sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari, (Zehntner, 1897) and the sorghum aphid Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904)
S. Nibouche, L. Costet, R. F. Medina, J. R. Holt, J. Sadeyen, A.-S. Zoogones, P. Brown, R. L. Blackman
This study uses morphometric and molecular data to distinguish between two aphid species, finding that M. sorghi is the invasive genotype damaging sorghum in the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean since 2013.
bioRxiv · Oct 23, 2020Zoology