Spartocera fusca (Thunberg, 1783)

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

Spartocera fusca (Thunberg, 1783)
status

 

Spartocera fusca (Thunberg, 1783)

Distribution

Comayagua and Yoro.

Notes

Specimens examined: 71 (CEEF, CURLA, EAPZ, UNAH).

Temporal distribution: Year long.

Hosts: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. (sweet potato), Gossypium sp. (cotton), Solanum lycopersicum L. (tomato), Solanum americanum Miller, Physalis peruviana L. ( Maes and Goellner-Scheiding 1993); Solanum tuberosum L. (potato) ( Passoa 1983), Solanum nigrum L. ( Mitchell 2000), and Capsicum annum L. ( Mitchell 2000).

Notes: Sarcophaga sternodontis Towns ( Diptera : Tachinidae ) is a known parasite of S. fusca in Nicaragua ( Maes and Goellner-Scheiding 1993).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Coreidae

Genus

Spartocera