Spartocera batatas (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Coreidae), newly established in Florida

Authors

Susan E. Halbert, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL
Julieta Brambila, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL

Date of this Version

September 2005

Comments

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/. Copyright © by Halbert and Brambila.

Abstract

Spartocera batatas (Fabricius) was found for the first time in the USA in Homestead, Florida, in 1995. Records from Brazil, British Guiana, Colombia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Jamaica, Martinique, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saba, and Venezuela also are reported. The bug can be a pest of sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas.