Insect Vectors of Rice Yellow Mottle Virus

Table 1

Insect vectors of rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) in Africa.  

Insect vectors	Geographic distribution	References
Beetles
Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
Sesselia pusilla, Trichispa sericea,; Dicladispa viridicyanea, D. paucispina,	East Africa	[7, 8, 25]; [40]
D. gestroi, Chaetocnema pulla, C. abyssinica,; C. kenyensis, C. pallidipes, C.  varicornis,	West Africa	[41–43]; [20, 43, 44]
Chaetocnema sp. Nov, Dactylispa lenta,; D.  bayoni, Cryptocephalus sp.,	Tanzania	[28, 45–47]; [22, 42]
Oulema dunbrodiensis, Monolepta flaveola,; M. haematuria, Aulacophora  foveicollis	Madagascar; Africa	[41, 48]
Insect near to Apophylia genus	East Africa	[47]
Coleoptera: Coccinellidae
Chnootriba similis, Xanthadalia effusa,	Madagascar	[6, 42, 49]
Cheilomenes lunata	West Africa
Grasshoppers
Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae
Conocephalus merumontanus	East Africa	[8, 50]
C. longipennis	West Africa	[6, 42, 49]
Orthoptera: Acrididae
Oxya spp., Oxya hyla, Acrida bicolor	Cosmopolitan	[42]
Paracinema tricolor, Stenohippus aequus	Africa, Europe	[42, 49, 51, 52]
Orthoptera: Tetrigidae
Paratettix sp.	West Africa	[49]
Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae
Zonocerus variegatus	Sub-Saharan Africa	[6, 42]
Orthoptera: Gryllidae
Euscyrtus sp.	West Africa	[6, 42]
Leafhoppers
Homoptera: Cicadellidae
Cofana spectra, C. unimaculata,	West, East, and	[6, 49]
Nephotettix modulatus	Central Africa
Homoptera: Cercopidae
Locris rubra, L. maculata	West Africa	[6, 49, 53]
Homoptera: Aphrophoridae
Poophilus costalis	West Africa	[49]
Flies
Diptera: Diopsidae
Diopsis thoracica	West, East, and Central Africa	[42, 49, 51]