Ommatissus lybicus[1][2] is a species of planthoppers in the subfamily Tropiduchinae, recorded from Libya through the Middle East to Pakistan.
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| Ommatissus lybicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
| Family: | Tropiduchidae |
| Genus: | Ommatissus |
| Species: | O. lybicus
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| Ommatissus lybicus de Bergevin, 1930
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Pest status
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Ommatissus lybicus may be known as the dubas bug or date palm hopper and is a significant pest of date palms: with sap sucking resulting in sooty mould formation on leaves.[3]
References
edit- ^ de Bergevin E (1930) Note sur trois espèces d'hémiptères recueillis en Egypte et description d'une nouvelle espèce d'Urentius (hémiptère Tingitidae) et d'une nouvelle variété d'Ommatissus binotatus Fieb. (homoptère Cixiidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte. Le Caire: 17-20.
- ^ Asche M, Wilson MR (1989) The palm-feeding planthopper genus Ommatissus (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Tropiduchidae), Systematic Entomology, 14: 127-147.
- ^ Bagheri A, Fathipour Y, Seyahooei MA, Zeinalabedini M (2018) Ommatissus lybicus (Hemiptera: Tropiduchidae), an economically important pest of date palm (Arecaceae) with highly divergent populations. The Canadian Entomologist 150(3):378-392. (DOI: 10.4039/tce.2018.12)
External links
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Data related to Ommatissus at Wikispecies
Media related to Ommatissus at Wikimedia Commons
