Brazil is considered the world’s largest producer of sugarcane, Saccharum spp. (Poales: Poaceae), with a production of approximately 654.8 million tons and 8.62 million hectares of harvested area in the 2020/2021 growing season, representing an increase of 1.8 and 2.1%, respectively, relative to the previous year (CONAB, 2021).

This high production can be affected by the infestation of pests such as Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), Hyponeuma taltula (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Mahanarva fimbriolata (Hemiptera: Cercopidae), Sphenophorus levis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Migdolus fryanus (Coleoptera: Vesperidae), Aclerda takahashii (Hemiptera: Aclerdidae), Saccharicoccus sacchari (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), Telchin licus (Lepidoptera: Castniidae), and Heterotermes tenuis (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), with D. saccharalis being one of the main pests of the crop (Machado; Habib, 2006; Zenker et al., 2007; Dinardo-Miranda et al., 2007, 2012, 2013a; Pavlu & Molin, 2016; Monteiro; Peronti & Martinelli, 2022).