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Giant Sweetpotato Bug (Spartocera batatas)
Photo#40885
Copyright © 2006
Sean McCann
Coreids -
Spartocera batatas
Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida, USA
January 12, 2006
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Contributed by
Sean McCann
on 13 January, 2006 - 1:02pm
Spartocera batatas.
This is the "giant sweet potato bug," Spartocera batatas. I will create a guide page for your fine images, Sean. I should add that this is yet another exotic, introduced species, first detected in Florida in 1996. This might represent a new record?
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Eric R. Eaton
, 13 January, 2006 - 1:42pm