Jumping plant bug

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Scientific name: Halticus minutus Reuter

 

A jumping plant bug and the white marks (stippling) produced by their feeding (J. O'Sullivan).

Diagnostic summary

  • What they do to plants

    - adults and nymphs suck the sap of the leaves producing white stippling or irregular-shaped marks on the upper surface.

  • Not a serious sweetpotato pest.

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