Orosius lotophagorum (Kirkaldy)
Caution
Many of the insects depicted on these pages are outwardly similar and you should not use photographs as the sole means of identification. These pages form part of a scientific key which will assist a trained entomologist to identify the species accurately.
Orosius lotophagorum (Kirkaldy 1907)
Common Name: none
Subfamily/Tribe: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini
Distribution: NT, Philippines, Polynesia, Melanesia
Economic Status: As listed in Day and Fletcher (1994) it has a wide host range, although not recorded as a vector of any plant diseases.
Notes: This species is similar to O. ryukyuensis, which was regarded by M.S.K. Ghauri (reported in Behncken 1984), as a subspecies of O. lotophagorum. The species were both considered to be valid by Fletcher et al. (2016) based on the structures of the male genitalia and CO1 barcode sequences.
