• Rajesh Dhakane
• Anant Shinde
• Harishchandra Kulkarni

Infestation of economically important crops by invasive pests such as stink bugs has been ever increasing problem in the globe from many years and their controlling strategies are being implemented in many countries. However, their identification and relationship with hosts have been poorly understood because of insufficient platform of morphology based taxonomical science, especially in the cases of immature or damaged specimens where external characters are uneasy to detect. Putting effective pest management programs into the operation is merely impossible if the target stink bug species, harms caused by them and their hosts are poorly investigated. Moreover, target oriented pest control strategies avoiding disastrous effects on non-harmful biota require understanding of species diversity of pests and their host plants under study which are difficult if morphological database is implemented. Therefore, in this review, we assessed the COI gene based species identification methodology of potentially destructive stink bugs, economic losses caused by them, their chemical and biological controlling strategies in addition with role of DNA barcoding in biomonitoring of these pests generating awareness among global farmers to overcome the problem of losses to commercial crops and orchards.

Stink bugs, pest management, COI gene, host specificity, identification problems, crop loss, biota

"Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxydase Subunit I (COI) Gene based Identification and Control of Invasive Stink Bug Species: a Review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.345-352, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907R57.pdf

"Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxydase Subunit I (COI) Gene based Identification and Control of Invasive Stink Bug Species: a Review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp345-352, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907R57.pdf