Proutista moesta (Westwood)


Basionym: Derbe moesta Westwood, 1851
Published in: Walker, F. (1852). List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. 4: 1119-1188.

Classification

Hemiptera
Auchenorrhyncha
Derbidae
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Proutista
moesta
(Westwood)

Synonymy

Derbe moesta Westwood, 1851
Phenice moesta (Westwood, 1851)
Thracia albipes Walker, 1870
Assamia dentata Buckton, 1896
Phenice maculosa Krüger, 1897
Proutista maculosa (Krüger, 1897)
Derbe downesii Westwood, 1903

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Worldwide Distribution

Distribution point data provided by GBIF.

Vector Status

Plant Diseases

Phytoplasmas

Singh, V., Baitha, A., Sinha, O.K. 2002. Transmission of grassy shoot disease of sugarcane by a leafhopper (Deltocephalus ulgaris Dash & Viraktamath). Indian journal of sugarcane technology, 17: 1-2

Ponnamma, KN., Solomon, J.J. 1998. Yellow leaf disease of Areca palms – critical studies on transmission with the vector, Proutista moesta Westwood (Homoptera; Derbidae). Journal of Plantation Crops, 26: 75-76

Rishi, N., Chen, C.T. 1989. Grassy shoot and white leaf diseases. In: Diseases of Sugarcane: Major Diseases, ed. C Ricaud, BT Egan, AG Gillepsie Jr, CG Hughes, pp. 289--300. Amsterdam: Elsevier

Rajan, P. 2011. Transmission of coconut root (wilt) disease through plant hopper, Proutista moesta Westwood (Homoptera: Derbidae). Pest Management In Horticultural Ecosystems, 17: 1–5

* Citations of Phytoplasma occurrance in Proutista moesta (Westwood) have been exctracted from the database of Hemiptera-Phytoplasma-Plant (HPP) biological interactions worldwide (Valeria Trivellone. (2019). Hemiptera-Phytoplasma-Plant dataset (v1.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2532738).


GALLERY



TAGS
Derbidae Fulgoroidea Proutista
RESOURCES

CITATION
Proutista moesta (Westwood): Wilson M. R. & Turner J. A. 2021. Insect Vectors of Plant Disease. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. Available online at http://insectvectors.science/vector/proutista-moesta. [ Accessed:  29/09/2023 ].
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