Common name: Cabbage looper

Common specie: Trichoplusia ni

Crops affected: egg plant

Semi Looper
Characteristics Damage: All stages of the crop can be attacked by semi-
looper. Larvae feed on the underside of the leaves creating small holes
which may lead to complete defoliation of the crops. It can cause stunting
of cabbage and cauliflower heads.

Family: Coccinellidae
Scientific name: Henosepilachna
vigintioctopunctata
Phylum: Arthropoda
Rank: Species

Ladybird
Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata is a species of beetle in the family
Coccinellidae. It is commonly known as the 28-spotted potato ladybird or
the Hadda beetle. It feeds on the foliage of potatoes and other solanaceous
crops.
 Family: Coccinellidae
Scientific name: Henosepilachna
vigintioctopunctata
Phylum: Arthropoda
Rank: Species
Order: Beetle

Leafhopper
A leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family
Cicadellidae. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are
plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees.

Scientific name: Cicadellidae

Family: Cicadellidae; Latreille, 1802
Order: True bugs
Rank: Family
Higher classification: Membracoidea

Whitefly

Common on indoor plants, tomatoes and in greenhouses,

the whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum) is a sap-sucking insect that is
often found in thick crowds on the undersides of leaves. When infested
plants are disturbed, great clouds of the winged adults fly into the air. Both
nymphs and adults damage plants by sucking ...
 Scientific name: Aleyrodidae
Order: True bugs
Phylum: Arthropoda
Higher classification: Naboidea
Rank: Family
classification: Sternorrhyncha
Plant destructed: egg plant

Damsel bugs
The insect family Nabidae contains the damsel bugs. There are over 500
species in 20 genera. They are soft-bodied, elongate, winged terrestrial
predators. Many damsel bugs catch and hold prey with their forelegs,
similar to mantids.

Scientific name: Alticini

Order: Beetle
Higher classification: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini; Spinola, 1844
Rank: Subfamily
Family: Chrysomelidae
Harmful

Flea beetle
The flea beetle is a small, jumping beetle of the leaf beetle family, that
makes up the tribe Alticini which is a part of the subfamily Galerucinae.
Historically the flea beetles were classified as their own subfamily.
 Scientific name: Spodoptera
frugiperda
Rank: Species
Higher
classification: Spodoptera
Did you know: The native range of
the Fall armyworm – Spodoptera
frugiperda – is in South and North
America. theconversation.com
Harmful

Fall armyworm

The fall armyworm is a species in the order of Lepidoptera and is the larval
life stage of a fall armyworm moth. The term "armyworm" can refer to
several species, often describing the large-scale invasive behavior of the
species' larval stage.

Scientific name: Aphidoidea

Order: True bugs
Rank: Superfamily
Class: Insecta
Higher
classification: Sternorrhyncha
Harmful

Aphid

Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily

Aphidoidea. Common names include greenfly and blackfly, although
individuals within a species can vary widely in colour. The group includes
the fluffy white woolly aphids.
 Scientific name: Coccinellidae
Rank: Family
Order: Beetle
Phylum: Arthropoda
Higher classification: Cucujoidea

Ladybird

Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles ranging from 0.8 to 18

mm. They are commonly yellow, orange, or red with small black spots on
their wing covers, with black legs, heads and antennae. However such
colour patterns vary greatly. Wikipedia

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Neuroptera
Family: Chrysopidae

Green lacewings
Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order
Neuroptera. Lacewings are widely used to control many different pests.
Many species of adult lacewings do not kill pest insects, they actually
subsist ...
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