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Sweet Potato



General Information
Common Name: Sweet Potato
Other Names: -
Group: Vegetables
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Ipomoea

  • PESTS
  • DISEASES

Insects and Other Pests

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Group Scientific Name Common Name
APHIDS Hyperomyza lactucae an aphid
APHIDS Macrosiphum euphorbiae potato aphid
APHIDS Melanaphis sacchari sugarcane aphid
APHIDS Myzus persicae green peach aphid
BEETLES Chaetocnema confinis sweetpotato flea beetle
BEETLES Cylas formicarius elegantulus sweetpotato weevil
BEETLES Euscepes postfasciatus West Indian sweetpotato weevil
BEETLES Omphisa anastomosalis sweetpotato vine borer
CASPIDS Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus bean caspid
CATERPILLARS Agrius cingulatas sweetpotato hornworm
CATERPILLARS Agrotis ipsilon black cutworm
CATERPILLARS Amorbia emigratella Mexican leafroller
CATERPILLARS Chrysodeixis eriosoma green garden looper
CATERPILLARS Spodoptera exigua beet armyworm
FLIES Conoderus amplicollis Gulf wireworm
LEAFHOPPERS Sophonia rufofascia two-spotted leafhopper
LEAFMINERS Bedellia orchilella sweetpotato leafminer
MITES Tetranychus tumidus tumid spider mite
SCALES Pinnaspis strachani Hibiscus snow scale
SCALES Pulvinaria urbicola cottony sweetpotato scale
THRIPS Chaetanaphothrips orchidii anthurium thrips
WHITEFLIES Bemisia argentifolii silverleaf whitefly
WHITEFLIES Bemisia tabaci sweetpotato whitefly
WHITEFLIES Trialeurodes vaporariorum greenhouse whitefly

Plant Diseases and Pathogens

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Group Scientific Name Common Name
BACTERIA Streptomyces ipomoeae soft rot
FUNGI Ceratocystis Primer -
FUNGI Ceratocystis fimbriata blight
FUNGI Diaporthe phaseolorum stem and root rot
FUNGI Elsinoe Primer -
FUNGI Elsinoe batatas spot anthracnose
FUNGI Fusarium Primer -
FUNGI Fusarium solani -
FUNGI Lasiodiplodia theobromae Java rot
FUNGI Monilochaetia infuscans -
FUNGI Pythium Primer -
FUNGI Pythium arrhenomanes root rot
FUNGI Pythium debaryanum -
FUNGI Pythium hydnosporum -
FUNGI Pythium irregulare -
FUNGI Pythium rostratum root rot
FUNGI Pythium splendens root rot
FUNGI Rhizoctonia Primer -
FUNGI Rhizoctonia sp. root rot
FUNGI Rhizopus stolonifer soft rot
FUNGI Rhizopus sp. -
FUNGI Sclerotium Primer -
FUNGI Sclerotium rolfsii southern blight
FUNGI Septoria bataticola leafspot
NEMATODES Radopholus similis burrowing nematode

 

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