Though insects of the bug family Membracidae.known popularly by such names as tree hoppers. cowbugs.bornbugs,little devils.etc.are found distributed all over the tropics.hardly any one of them has so far been noted as a plant pest of any appreciabli economic importance.Neither Lefroy nor Fletcher in their important publications on Indian insect speak of any of these bugs as plant pests in India.they only refer to one insect of this group Oxyrachis tarandus.F.which is commonly noted breeding on Red gram.Acacia arabia and Cassia species and which is never found so far to cause any appreciable damage to their host plants.
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