Rice-agroecosystem

Guides

• Anaxipha

  Brown Sword-tail Crickets

  Anaxipha is a genus of small swordtail crickets distributed across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, including the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and western Pacific islands. Members are known as "brown sword-tail crickets" and are characterized by their acoustic communication systems, which in several studied species include both calling songs and previously undocumented courtship songs with substrate-borne vibrational signals (drumming). Some species occupy agricultural habitats such as rice fields, where they function as generalist predators.

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• Tytthus

  Tytthus is a genus of predatory plant bugs (Miridae) specialized in feeding on planthopper eggs. Species range from approximately 1 mm to 3.6 mm in length. The genus has undergone extensive taxonomic revision, having been placed in multiple tribes before current placement in Semiini. Several species have been used successfully in biological control programs against agricultural pests.

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