List of agricultural insect pests affecting crops worldwide

This list of agricultural pests is part of the supplementary material of the article entitled "Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review", publised in the journal Biological Reviews in 2023.

We compiled a comprehensive list of agricultural insect pests occurring in temperate and tropical regions. Since no more recent public documents or published lists were available at the time of the study, we extracted the main agricultural insect pests cited in Hill (1983, 1987). Note that species might be considered pests in certain regions while not in others, meaning that this comprehensive list will need careful review by entomologists and local or regional experts for use in agricultural management.

We assembled a first list of 1236 insect pest species or genera extracted from Hill (1987, 1983). We then conducted a second literature search (LS2) in the ISI Web of Science using the R package wosr. We searched for any indexed document containing the following terms in the topic field: ‘pest species name’ AND ‘bat*’. After the first check of the articles found, we added 562 new pest species to the first list, which were not included in Hill (1987, 1983) but were studied in the papers found. The updated list consisting of 1798 insect pest species then was used to perform the same literature search with the R package wosr.