Category: Sweetpotato Pests

4.2.1 Sweetpotato weevil, Cylas puncticollis (Boheman 1883)

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4.2.1 Sweetpotato Pests / Sweetpotato weevil, Cylas puncticollis (Boheman 1883)  Synonym: None Taxonomic position: Insecta, Coleoptera, Brentidae Authors: J.S. Okonya, N. Mujica, P. Carhuapoma, & J. Kroschel Common names African sweetpotato…
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4.2.2 Sweetpotato weevil, Cylas brunneus (Fabricius)

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4.2.2 Sweetpotato Pests / Sweetpotato weevil, Cylas brunneus (Fabricius) Synonyms: Cylas angustatus (Labram and Imhoff 1838; Labrouise 1842; Pierce 1940; Marshall 1953)                       Brentus brunneus (Olivier 1790) Taxonomic position: Insecta, Coleoptera,…
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4.2.3 Sweetpotato butterfly, Acraea acerata (Hewitson 1874)

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4.2.3 Sweetpotato Pests / Sweetpotato butterfly, Acraea acerata (Hewitson 1874) Synonyms: Actinote acerata (Hewitson 1874) Acraea vinidia (Hewitson 1874) Acraea tenella (Rogenhofer 1891) Telchinia tenella (Rogenhofer 1891) Acraea abbotti (Holland 1892) Acraea…
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4.2.4 Sweetpotato white fly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius 1989) (Biotype B)

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  4.2.4 Sweetpotato Pests / Sweetpotato white fly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius 1989) (Biotype B) Synonyms: B. inconspicua (Quaintance 1900–Aleurodes) B. emiliae (Corbett 1926) B. signata (Bondar 1928) B. bahiana (Bondar 1928)…
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4.2.5 White fly, Bemisia afer (Priesner & Hosny 1934)

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  4.2.5  Sweetpotato Pests / White fly, Bemisia afer (Priesner & Hosny 1934) Synonyms: B. hancocki was described from Uganda in 1936. Taxonomic position: Insecta: Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae Authors: H. Gamarra,…
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