Homoptera: Aphididae
Issue No. 302
H. A. Denmark
January, 1988
Introduction
There are 2 species of aphids that infest sugarcane in Florida. The yellow sugarcane aphid, Sipha flava (Forbes) and the sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner). Forbes described Chaitophorus flavus (1884) from sorghum at Champaign, Illinois. It has been a pest of sugarcane in Florida for many years. Forbes reported it as the yellow sorghum plant louse. Zehntner described Aphis sacchari from sugarcane in Java (1897). It was first collected in Florida at Belle Glade in 1977 on sugarcane. Measurements are in mm.