| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Authors: | K. Viswanathan, Kalode M. B. |
| Journal: | Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences Animal Sciences |
| Volume: | 95 |
| Date Published: | 1986 |
| Accession Number: | ZOOREC:ZOOR12400029329 |
| Keywords: | / / Plant host range & specificity investigation] [India / / Food, Nephotettix nigropictus; Nephotettix virescens [Food plants / / Host, plant range & specificity investigation]., range & specificity investigation; comparative study] [Food preferences |
| Abstract: | Intensive host range studies comprising of 55 common weeds and eight cultivated plant species indicated that Nephotettix virescens could survive and breed only on susceptible rice variety, while N. nigropictus had a wider host range consisting of rice, sugarcane and five graminaceous weeds. N. virescens preferred rice plant both for settling and egg laying while N. nigropictus showed greater preference to Leersia hexandra than others. Both species selected the host plants by gustation rather than by vision or olfaction. |
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