COMMON INSECT

PESTS OF CROPS
GENERAL EATERS
COMMON NAME: SLANTFACE GRASSHOPPER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Atractomorpha psittacina (Haan)
ORDER: Orthoptera
FAMILY: Acrididae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Irregularly chewed leaves.
In severe infestation whole plants are stripped.
COMMON NAME:KATYDID/ bush crickets or long-
horned grasshoppers
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Mecopoda elongata (Linn)
ORDER: Orthoptera
FAMILY: Tettigoniidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Irregularly chewed leaves. In severe infestation
whole plants are stripped.
COMMON NAME: MIGRATORY LOCUST
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Locusta migratoria manilensis
(Meyen)
ORDER: Orthoptera
FAMILY: Acrididae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Irregularly chewed leaves. In severe infestation
whole plants are stripped.
COMMON NAME: JUNE BEETLE
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Leucopholis irrorata
(Chevrolat)
ORDER: Coleoptera
FAMILY: Melolonthidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: Plants unthrifty and

stunted. Irregular patches of yellowing or
wilting plants in the field.
COMMON NAME: TRUE ARMY WORM
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Pseudaletia separata (Walker)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Noctuidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: Young seedlings are cut off

at the base and the larvae usually buries itself
underground during day time.
COMMON NAME: BLACK ARMY WORM
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Spodoptera exempta (Walker)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Noctuidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Young seedlings are cut off at the base and the
larvae usually buries itself underground during
day time.
COMMON NAME: GRASS ARMYWORM
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Spodoptera mauritia (Guenee)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Noctuidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: Young seedlings are cut off

at the base and the larvae usually buries itself
underground during day time.
COMMON NAME: FALL ARMYWORM
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Noctuidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: Young seedlings are cut off

at the base and the larvae usually buries itself
underground during day time.
COMMON NAME: Flea Beetles
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Phyllotreta sp.
ORDER: Coleoptera
FAMILY: Chrysomelidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: adult feed on stems and

leaves where they create small, rounded,
irregular holes.
RICE CROP INSECT PESTS
COMMON NAME: WHITE STEMBORER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Scirpophaga innotata
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Schoenobidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Unfolding, browning, and drying of the central
whorl as a result of larvae feeding within the
stem.
Deadheart and whiteheads symptoms.
COMMON NAME: YELLOW RICE STEMBORER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Scirpophaga incertulas Walker
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Crambibidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Unfolding, browning, and drying of the central
whorl as a result of larvae feeding within the
stem.
Deadheart and whiteheads symptoms.
COMMON NAME: PINK STEMBORER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Sesamia inferens (Walker)
ORDER: Lepidoprtera
FAMILY: Noctuidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Unfolding, browning, and drying of the central whorl
as a result of larvae feeding within the stem.
Deadheart and whiteheads symptoms.
COMMON NAME: Rice Bug
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Leptocorisa oratoria Fabricius
ORDER: Hemiptera
FAMILY: Alydidae
NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Grain stained brown,
Panicles empty or
Underdeveloped.
COMMON NAME: Rice Bug
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Leptocorisa
acuta Thunberg
ORDER: Hemiptera
FAMILY: Alydidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Grain stained brown,
Panicles empty or
Underdeveloped.
COMMON NAME: LEAFFOLDER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Cnaphalocrosis medinalis
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Pyraustidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Leaves folded with larvae
feeding inside by scraping
leaf tissues.
COMMON NAME: MOLE CRICKET
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Gryllotalpa africana
ORDER: GRYLLOBLATTODEA
FAMILY: Gryllotalpidae
NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Roots eaten away or
Separated from the stalk
COMMON NAME: BROWN PLANTHOPPER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Nilaparvata lugens (Stal)
ORDER: Homoptera
FAMILY: Delphacidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: Plants wilted and dwarfed.

Transmit grassy and ragged stunt viruses. In severe
infestation described as “hopper burn”
COMMON NAME: WHITEBACKED LEAFHOPPER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Sogatella furcifera (Horvath)
ORDER: Homoptera
FAMILY: Delphacidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Foliage turns yellow mottled or wilted. In severe
infestation described as “hopper burn”
COMMON NAME:ZIGZAG LEAFHOPPER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Recilla dorsalis Motschulsky
ORDER: Homoptera
FAMILY: Cicadelidae
NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Wilting and withering of leaves. Transmit orange
leaf virus.
COMMON NAME: RICE NYMPHALID
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Melanitis leda leda (Linn)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Satyridae
NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Leaf blades irregularly eaten up with green
horny rugose caterpillar.
COMMON NAME: GREEN LEAFHOPPER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Nephotettix nigropictus
ORDER: Homoptera
FAMILY: Cicadelidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Upper leaves wilted, young plants stop growing
and die. Transmit yellow dwarf and tungro
viruses.
COMMON NAME: GREEN LEAFHOPPER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Nephotettix virescens Distant
ORDER: Homoptera
FAMILY: Cicadelidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Upper leaves wilted, young plants stop growing
and die. Transmit yellow dwarf and tungro
viruses.
COMMON NAME: RICE BLACK BUG
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Scotinophara coarctata (Fabr.)
ORDER: Hemiptera
FAMILY: Pentatomidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: Suck plant sap and in

severe cases exhibit bugburn symptoms.
Panicles partially exerted.
COMMON NAME: RICE WHORL MAGGOT
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Hydrellia philippina Ferino
ORDER: Diptera
FAMILY: Ephydridae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Irregular white necrotic
patches or pinholes on leaves of young
plants.
COMMON NAME: RICE SKIPPER
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Pelopidas mathias (Fabr.)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Hesperidae
NATURE OF DAMAGE: Edges of leaves rolled
with larvae feeding inside the rolled leaves.
INSECT PESTS OF CORN
COMMON NAME: Corn Aphids
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch)
ORDER: Homoptera
FAMILY: Aphididae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Plant stunted or leaves curled up with aphids
colonies underneath the leaves.
COMMON NAME: Corn borer
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ostrinia furnacalis (Guenee)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Pyraustidae
NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Stem with bored holes
and with excrements
out of the hole.
COMMON NAME: Corn semilooper
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Chrysodeixes chalcites (Esper)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Noctuidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Feed on young leaves which make them appear
skeletonized by the green larvae. Corn silk cut.
COMMON NAME: CORN SEEDLING MAGGOT
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Atherigona oryzae Malloch
ORDER: Diptera
FAMILY: Muscidae
NATURE OF DAMAGE:
Irregular white necrotic
patches on leaves of young
plants.
COMMON NAME: BLACK CRICKET
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Gryllus bimaculatus De Geer
ORDER: Orthoptera
FAMILY: Gryllidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: seedlings are mined just

above the ground, easily break off.
COMMON NAME: BROWN CRICKET
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Teleogryllus testaceus (Walker)
ORDER: Orthoptera
FAMILY: Gryllidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: seedlings are mined just

above the ground, easily break off.
COMMON NAME: CORN EARWORM
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Helicoverpa armegira
armegira (Hubner)
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Noctuidae

NATURE OF DAMAGE: on young plants they bore

through the young folded leaves. Ears are
heavily attacked and the cobs are irregularly
injured.
VEGETABLES
CN: Eggplant fruit and shoot
borer
SN: Leucinodes orbonalis
Family: Crambidae
Order: Lepidoptera

ND: The small larva bores

inside shoots, resulting in the
withering of the shoots. It
also bores into and feeds on
young and maturing fruit,
making the fruit inedible and
unfit for market.
CN: Sweet potato hornworm
SN: Agrius convolvuli (Linn)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Sphingidae
ND: Leaves with irregular holes or cut off from
stem or skeletonised up to midribs.
CN: bean lycaenid
SN: Catachrysops cnejus (Fabr)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Lycaenid
ND: Slug-like flattened larvae holes on shoots
and flowers
CN: Cabbage butterfly
SN: Delias canidia (Linn)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Pieridae

ND: Irregular perforation on leaves.

CN: Diamond
backmoth
SN: Plutella
xylostella
O: Lepidoptera
F: Plutellidae

ND: complete
removal of foliar
tissue except for
the leaf veins.
CN: Tussock moth
SN: Lymantria lunata (Cramer)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Lymantriidae

ND: Irregular holes on leaves eaten by hairy

caterpillar
CN: Green soldier bug
SN: Nezara viridula (Linn)
O: Hemiptera
F: Pentatomidae

ND: Nymphs and adults suck plant sap leaving

brown spots on stem and fruit.
CN: bean lycaenid
SN: Lampides boeticus (Linn)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Lycaenidae

ND: Slug-like flattened larvae holes on shoots and

flowers
CN: Squash bug
SN: Leptoglossus australis (Linn)
O: Hemiptera
F: Coreidae

ND: Nymps and adults suck plant sap leaving

brown spots on stem and fruit
CN: Gabi hornworm
SN: Hippotion celerio (Linn)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Sphingidae

ND: Young seedlings are cut off at the base and

the larvae usually buries itself underground
during day time.
CN: Gabi skipper
SN: Tagiades japetus titus Plotz
O: Lepidoptera
F: Hesperidae

ND: Leaves rolled and larva feeding on leaves

CN: Bean Bug
SN: Riptortus linearis (Fabr)
O: Hemiptera
F: Coreidae

ND: shoots mottled often with brown sunken pits

CN: bean leaf roller
SN: Sylepta sabinusalis (Walker)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Pyraustidae

ND: Leaves are rolled up or folded with larva

inside
CN: Squash/cucurbits beetle
SN: Aulacophora similis Olivier
O: Coleoptera
F: Chrysomellidae

ND: Grubs bore into the roots. Adult scrap

epidermis of leaves.
CN: Bean aphid
SN: Aphis craccivora Koch
O: Homoptera
F: Aphididae

ND: Discoloration and curling of leaves causing

stunted growth
CN: Tiger moth catterpillar
SN: Diacresia metarhoda (Walker)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Arctiidae

ND: Hairy caterpillar chew irregular patches on

leaves.
CN: Cotton stainer
SN: Dysdercus cingulatus Fabr
O: Hemiptera
F: Phyrhocoridae

ND: The bugs puncture the green shoots and

leaves causing the plant to be severely
stunted in cases of severe infestation.
CN: tomato fruitworm
SN: Helicoverpa armegira armegira Hubner
O: Lepidoptera
F: Noctuidae

ND: fruit will curl or deformed

CN: Sweet potato weevil
SN: Cylas formicarius formicarius (Fabr)
O: Coleoptera
F: Curculionidae

ND: Infested tubers exude foul odor or taste bitter.

CN: Tortoise beetle
SN: Aspidomorpha miliaris (Fabr)
O: Coleoptera
F: Chrysomelidae

ND: Larvae and adults feeding on leaves create

irregular holes. Plants become completely
defoliated when the insects are found in large
numbers.
CN: Gabi sphinx moth
SN: Rhyncolaba acteus (Cramer)
O: Lepidoptera
F: Sphingidae

ND: Young seedlings are cut off at the base and the
larvae usually buries itself underground during day
time with the presence of tailed hornworm
CN: Tortoise shelled-beetle
SN: Cassida circumdata Herbst
O: Coleoptera
F: Chrysomelidae

ND: Larvae and adults feeding on leaves create

irregular holes. Plants become completely
defoliated when the insects are found in large
numbers.
CN: Root grub
SN: Anomala humeralis (Burmeister)
O: Coleoptera
F: Rutelidae

ND: Plants unthrifty and stunted due to grubs

feeding on the roots.
CN: Whitefly
SN: Bemisia tabaci
O: Hemiptera
F: Aleyrodidae

ND: nymph and adult suck plant juices causing

stunted growth, leaf yellowing thus reduce
yield.
CN: Leafminer
SN: Stomopteryx subsecievella
O: Diptera
F: Gelechiidae

ND: maggot mines and feeds on tissues of leaves.

As a result, only silvery membrain remains and
the larvae are visible externally. Heavy
infestation causes premature dropping of leaf.
PLANTATION CROPS
CN: Lacewing bug on guyabano
SN: Stephanitis typicus Distant
O: Homoptera
F: Tingidae

ND: young and adults feed together on the underside

of the leaves. Infested leaf loses its shiny green luster,
become yellowish, often falling odd the tree
prematurely. Heavily infested trees are stunted in
growth and become unproductive.
CN: Cocoa pod borer
SN: Conopomorpha cramerella (Snellen)
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae

ND: The cocoa pod borer is seen as

entry and exit holes created by the
tunnelling larvae on the husk, and
overall premature or uneven ripening
(yellowing) of pods caused by internal
feeding activity.
CN: Citrus green locust
SN: Melicodes tenebrosa tenebrosa Walker
O: Orthoptera
F: Acrididae

ND: nymphs and adults feed on fruit and foliage.

Nymphs being gregarious feed together and
may defoliate twigs.
CN: Mango leafhoppers
SN: Idioscopus niveosparsus Lethiery
O: Homoptera
F: Cicadellidae

ND: both nymphs and adults suck juices on the

leaves, inflorescence and flowers. Honeydew is
secreted on w/c sooty molds develop.
CN: Click Beetle
SN: Melanotus spp.
O: Coleoptera
F: Elateridae

ND: boring into the seeds and underground

parts of plants even the lateral roots.
Common name: Rhinocerous beetle
SN: Oryctes rhinocerous Linnaeus
O: Coleoptera
F: Scarabaeidae

ND: the adults feed on the cabbage or growing bud of

coconut such that emerging fronds display a
characteristic triangular pattern or geometric cuts as if
the component leaflets had been cut with scissors.
CN: Atlas moth
SN: Attacus atlas
O: Lepidoptera
F: Saturniidae

ND: larva feed on foliage.

CN: Coconut Scale Insect (Cocolisap)
SN: Aspidiotus rigidus
O: Homoptera
F: Diaspididae

ND: Yellowing of leaves due to sucking up the

plant sap.
CN: Banana aphids
SN: Pentalonia nigronervosa Coquerel
O: Homoptera
F: Aphidoidea

ND: transmit Banana Bunch top Virus (BBTV)

CN: Banana weevil
SN: Cosmopolites sordidus Germar
O: Coleoptera
F: Curculionidae

ND: Irregular tunnels in the rhizome and

pseudo stem at ground level are bored
by the larvae. The tissue at the edge of
the tunnel turns brown and rots. Larva
tunnel may extend up to the leaf
petioles to a height of a meter or more.
CN: Mealy bugs
SN: Planococcus lilacinus
O: Homoptera
F: Pseudococcidae

ND: suck the sap of fruits

CN: Banana skipper/banana leaf roller
SN: Erionata thrax Linnaeus
O: Lepidoptera
F: Hesperiidae

ND: rolled banana leaves while feeding inside

CN: Mango twig borer
SN: Niphonoclea capito Pascoe
O: Coleoptera
F: Cerambycidae

ND: larval damaged characterized by drying up

of shoots and death of twigs.
CN: Oriental fruitfly
SN: Bactrocera dorsalis
O: Diptera
F: Tephritidae

ND: adult fly laid eggs in fruits, maggots feed and

destroy the tissues of the fruits.
CN: Mango pulp weevil
SN: Sternochitus frijidus Fabricius (Palawan only)
O: Coleptera
F: Curculionidae

ND: No visible damage can be observed from the outside as the wound
inflicted by the larva upon entry into the fruit immediately heals. The weevil
completed its development inside the fruit. Infected fruits when sliced open
show pupal cells or chambers filled with frass, dead or live weevils, pupae or
larvae. The presence of dark brown, soil-like frass, moving larvae and
weevils makes unfit for human consumption.
CN: Mango stem borer
SN: Bactocera rufomaculata De Geer
O: Coleoptera
F: Cerambycidae

ND: adult feeding when bark of twigs is gnawed or the

green tips are chewed.
CN: Cecid fly/ Gall midge
SN: Erosomyia mangiferae Felt
O: Diptera
F: Cecidomyiidae

ND: Infested mango buds, shoots and young fruits bear many small
blister galls, about 3-4 mm long, each containing a yellow larva. In severe
attacks the affected plant parts shrivel and die. Small emergence holes
may be detected where larvae have left the galls to go to the soil and at
this stage secondary fungal infections may develop. When young fruits
are attacked, the exit holes are usually on the lower side of the fruit near
its point of attachment to the axis of the inflorescence.
CN: Papaya aphids
SN: Aphis gosypii Glover
O: Homoptera
F: Aphididae

ND: This species do not

colonize the crop but these
are important vectors of the
non-persistent papaya
ringspot virus.
STORED PRODUCTS
CN: Rice weevil
SN: Sitophilus oryzae
O: Coleoptera
F: Curculionidae

ND: holes on the grains

CN: Copra beetle
SN: Necrobia rufipes
O: Coleoptera
F: Cleridae

ND: holes on the copra

CN: Corn weevil
SN: Sitophilus zeamays
O: Coleoptera
F: Curculionidae

ND: holes on the grains

CN: Bruchids
SN: Callosobruchus maculatus
Fabricius
O: Coleoptera
F: Chrysomelidae
ND: It attacks mungbean both in field
and storage but greater losses occur in
the latter. The nutritional quality of
the grains deteriorates because of the
infestation rendering making them
unmarketable.
CN: Red Flour beetle
SN: Tribolium castaneum Herbst
O: Coleoptera
F: Tenebrionidae

ND: Larva and adult feed on wide range of

durable commodities such as groundnuts,
nuts, spices, coffee, cereals, dried fruits and
animal feed.