Geographic dispersion of invasive crop pests: the role of basal, plastic climate stress tolerance and other complementary traits in the tropics

•High basal and plastic tolerance to stress promote pest invasion.•Polyphagy and diverse reproductive strategies aid invasiveness.•Rapid evolution to stress resistance is a common trait in prolific invasive pests.•Integrated stress resistance may form complex distribution patterns in pests.•Future models should incorporate effects of divergent interacting stressors.