List of insect pests of millets

This article contains a list of insect pests of millets primarily derived from Kalaisekar (2017).^[1]

Millet species

All of the millet species listed below belong to the grass family, Poaceae. Most species generally referred to as millets belong to the subfamily Panicoideae, but some millets also belong to various other taxa. Major millets are in bold.

Eragrostideae tribe in the subfamily Chloridoideae:

• Eleusine coracana
  : Finger millet
• Eragrostis tef
  : Teff

Paniceae tribe in the subfamily Panicoideae:

• Genus Panicum:
  • Panicum miliaceum
    : Proso millet (common millet, broomcorn millet)
  • Panicum sumatrense: Little millet
• Pennisetum glaucum
  : Pearl millet
• Setaria italica
  : Foxtail millet
• Genus Digitaria
  • Digitaria exilis: White fonio
  • Digitaria compacta: Raishan
• Genus Echinochloa: barnyard millets
  • Echinochloa esculenta: Japanese barnyard millet
  • Echinochloa frumentacea: Indian barnyard millet
  • Echinochloa crus-galli: Common barnyard grass
• Paspalum scrobiculatum: Kodo millet
• Genus Brachiaria
  • Brachiaria deflexa: Guinea millet
  • Brachiaria ramosa
    : Browntop millet

Andropogoneae tribe, also in the subfamily Panicoideae:

• Sorghum bicolor: Sorghum
• Coix lacryma-jobi: Job's tears

Lepidoptera

• Family Crambidae
  • Leaf folders, Cnaphalocrocis
    • Rice leaf folder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis
  • Cnaphalocrocis patnalis
  • Marasmia trapezalis
  • Spotted stem borer, Chilo partellus
  • Sugarcane stalk borer, Chilo auricilius
  • Sugarcane early shoot borer, Chilo infuscatellus
  • Sugarcane internode borer, Chilo sacchariphagus
  • Asian corn borer, Ostrinia furnacalis
  • Millet stem borer, Coniesta ignefusalis
  • Corn borer,
    Diatraea grandiosella
• Family Erebidae
  • Subfamily Arctiinae
    • Amsacta albistriga
    • Amsacta lactinea
    • Amsacta moorei
    • Barsine roseororatus
    • Creatonotos gangis
    • Conogethes punctiferalis
    • Cyana horsfieldi
    • Spilosoma obliqua
  • Subfamily Lymantriinae (hairy caterpillars)
    • Euproctis limbalis
    • Yellow-tail moth,
      Euproctis similis
    • Euproctis virguncula
    • Tussock moths
      • Arna micronides
      • Nygmia amplior
      • Orvasca subnotata
• Family
  Hesperiidae
  • Rice skipper butterfly, Pelopidas mathias
• Family Noctuidae
  • Black cutworm, Agrotis ipsilon
  • Sesamia inferens
  • African maize stalk borer, Busseola fusca
  • Subfamily Hadeninae (armyworms)
    • Mythimna spp.
      • Mythimna separata
      • Mythimna loreyi
  • Subfamily Noctuinae (armyworms)
    • Spodoptera spp.
    • African armyworm,
      Spodoptera exempta
    • Red tef worm, Mentaxya ignicollis
  • Subfamily Heliothinae
    • Cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera
    • Millet head miner moth, Heliocheilus albipunctella
  • Subfamily Acontiinae
    • Autoba silicula
  • Subfamily Aganainae
    • Asota plaginota
  • Subfamily Catocalinae
    • Mocis frugalis
• Family Pyralidae
  • Subfamily Galleriinae
    • African sugarcane stalk borer,
      Eldana saccharina
  • Subfamily Phycitinae
    • Honey dew moth, Cryptoblabes gnidiella
    • Green-striped borer, Maliarpha separatella

Diptera

• Family Cecidomyiidae (midges)
  • Sorghum midge, Stenodiplosis sorghicola
  • Millet midge, Geromyia penniseti
• Family Muscidae
  • Shoot flies, Atherigona^[1][2][3][4]
    • Pennisetum typhoides, Sorghum bicolor
    • Setaria italica
    • Setaria italica, Setaria viridis
    • barnyard millet shoot fly): affects Echinochloa colona, Echinochloa frumentacea, Echinochloa stagnina, Panicum sumatrense
    • Atherigona hyalinipennis (teff shoot fly)
    • Panicum miliaceum, Panicum sumatrense
    • Zea mays
    • Atherigona orientalis (tomato fly or pepper fruit fly)
    • Zea mays
    • Setaria italica
    • Triticum aestivum
    • bermudagrass stem maggot): affects Cynodon dactylon
      (turf grasses)
    • kodo millet shoot fly): affects Paspalum scrobiculatum
    • Eleusine coracana