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    Dossier on Eumetopina flavipes as a pest of sugarcane
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited)
    Eumetopina flavipes Muir (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) Common name Island sugarcane planthopper Distribution Papua New Guinea (PNG), Torres Strait Islands (TSI) and northern Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia (Bourke 1968; Gough & Peterson 1984; Chandler & Croft 1986; Kuniata et al. 1994; Magarey et al. 2002; Wilson 2004; Anderson et al. 2007, 2009, 2010; Grimshaw & Donaldson 2007; Anderson & Condon 2013). Also recorded from Indonesia (Borneo), Malaysia (Sarawak), Solomon Islands, Philippines, New Caledonia (M. Wilson, personal communication). Eumetopina flavipes is the vector of Ramu Stunt disease of sugarcane. For information on this disease refer to the Ramu Stunt Dossier.
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    Dossiers on SESAMIA species as pests of sugarcane
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited)
    Tams and Bowden (1953) give extensive descriptions of both the male and female adults of the African species. The Oriental and New Guinea species do not appear to have been incorporated in any useful key.
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    Dossier on Ramu stunt as a disease of sugarcane
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited)
    Ramu stunt is caused by a unique virus related to the genus Tenuivirus. The virus has not yet been fully characterised. The disease is systemic and in susceptible varieties leads to plant death. Ramu stunt is transmitted by the planthopper Eumetopina flavipes.
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    Dossier on sugarcane downy mildew (species of the genus PERONOSCLEROSPORA) as a disease of sugarcane
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited)
    Sugarcane downy mildew can be caused by one of several fungi in the Peronosclerospora genus, these include P. sacchari (T. Miyake) Shirai & Hara (1927), P. spontanea (Weston) C.G. Shaw, P. miscanthi (T. Miyake) C.G. Shaw and P. philippinensis (Weston) C.G. Shaw. P. sacchari and P. philippinensis are considered to be the most important pathogens of commercial sugarcane crops. In Papua New Guinea there is evidence that an unclassified member of the Peronosclerospora can cause downy mildew: this member is suspected to be closely related to the known sugarcane-infecting species (SRA Final Report).These pathogens invade the sugarcane plant via conidia landing on young buds and via young leaf tissue at the base of the leaf spindle in young shoots. The pathogen invades the stalk tissue and moves through the cane plant to infect newly-developed leaves. With time, these show the characteristic leaf striping symptoms.
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    Dossier on SCIRPOPHAGA SPP. as pests of sugarcane
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited)
    The genus Scirpophaga Treitschke belongs to the family Pyralidae, subfamily Schoenobiinae. Members of this genus are mainly stem borers of graminaceous crops. The genus is distributed in the Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental and Australian regions. It is especially important in the Indian subregion, where species are pests of rice and sugarcane (Arora 2000).
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    Dossiers on CHILO species as pests of sugarcane
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited)
    Genus Chilo Zincken Larvae of all Chilo species are stemborers that attack gramineous plants. The genus Chilo contains 41 species, mainly distributed in the Ethiopian and Oriental Regions. Because many Chilo species are notorious pests of gramineous plants such as corn, sugarcane, rice, sorghum, millet and other staple crops, their world distribution has largely been affected by accidental introductions into new geographical areas