''Sipha flava'' is a species of aphid in the family Aphididae.''Sipha flava''.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). It is native to

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

. Its common name is yellow sugarcane aphid.Nuessly, G. S
Yellow Sugarcane Aphid, ''Sipha flava'' (Forbes) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aphididae).
EENY-354 (IN635). Entomology and Nematology. Florida Cooperative Extension Service. University of Florida IFAS. 2005. This aphid is an agricultural

pest Pest or The Pest may refer to: Science and medicine * Pest (organism), an animal or plant deemed to be detrimental to humans or human concerns ** Weed, a plant considered undesirable * Infectious disease, an illness resulting from an infection ** ...

corn Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...

sorghum ''Sorghum'' () is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the grass family (Poaceae). Some of these species are grown as cereals for human consumption and some in pastures for animals. One species is grown for grain, while many othe ...

, and

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. It also infests lawn and

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...

grasses. It has been noted on crabgrasses, barleys, panic grasses, paspalums,

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s. It can also be found on some sedges.

References

Chaitophorinae Insects described in 1884 Hemiptera of North America Agricultural pest insects Taxa named by Stephen Alfred Forbes Insect pests of millets {{Aphididae-stub