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Morphometric and Molecular Discrimination of the sugarcane aphid, <i>Melanaphis sacchari</i> , (Zehntner, 1897) and the sorghum aphid <i>Melanaphis sorghi</i> (Theobald, 1904)

2020-10-23

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Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner, 1897) and Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904) are major worldwide crop pests causing direct feeding damage on sorghum and transmitting viruses to sugarcane. It is common in the scientific literature to consider these two species as synonyms, referred to as the ‘sugarcane aphid’, although no formal study has validated this synonymy. In this study, based on the comparison of samples co...

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10.1101/2020.10.23.351833
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