''Ommatissus lybicus'' is a species of

planthopper A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...

s in the subfamily

Tropiduchinae Tropiduchinae is a subfamily of tropiduchid planthoppers in the family Tropiduchidae Tropiduchidae is a family of planthoppers in the order Hemiptera. There are at least 160 genera and 600 described species In biology, a species is the ...

, recorded from

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...

through the

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Pest status

''Ommatissus lybicus'' may be known as the dubas bug or date palm hopper and is a significant pest of

date palm ''Phoenix dactylifera'', commonly known as date or date palm, is a flowering plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates. The species is widely cultivated across northern Africa, the Middle Eas ...

s: with sap sucking resulting in sooty mould formation on leaves.Bagheri A, Fathipour Y, Seyahooei MA, Zeinalabedini M (2018) ''Ommatissus lybicus'' (Hemiptera: Tropiduchidae), an economically important pest of date palm (Arecaceae) with highly divergent populations. ''The Canadian Entomologist'' 150(3):378-392. (DOI: 10.4039/tce.2018.12)

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* * {{taxonbar, from=Q63284643 Tropiduchinae Hemiptera of Africa Hemiptera of Asia