Sagotylus confluens (Say, 1832)

Linares, Carlos A & Orozco, Jesus, 2017, The Coreidae of Honduras (Hemiptera: Coreidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 13067-13067 : 13067

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scientific name

Sagotylus confluens (Say, 1832)
status

 

Sagotylus confluens (Say, 1832)

Distribution

Atlántida, Comayagua, Choluteca, Cortés, El Paraíso, Francisco Morazán, Islas de la Bahía, Olancho, and Yoro.

Notes

Specimens examined: 196 (CEEF, CURLA, EAPZ, UNAH).

Temporal distribution: Year long.

Hosts: Oryza sativa L. (rice), Zea mays L. (corn) ( Passoa 1983), Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. (EAPZ); Ricinus communis L. ( Valdés-Rodríguez et al. 2015), and Senna obtusifolia L. H.S. Irwin & Barneby ( Palmer and Pullen 2000).

This species is considered one of the main pests of fig trees in Mexico feeding on terminal shoots and new leaves. Due to its large size, the latex loss is high and its excreta favor the establishment of fungi on the terminal buds causing them to dry ( Valdés-Rodríguez et al. 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Coreidae

Genus

Sagotylus