eggplant lace bug

Gargaphia solani

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Tingidae

Gargaphia solani is a subsocial species of lace bug commonly known as the eggplant lace bug. The species was described by Heidemann in 1914 after it aroused attention a year earlier in the United States as an eggplant pest around Norfolk, Virginia. Fink found that the species became an agricultural pest when eggplant is planted on a large scale.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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