Euscepes postfasciatus
West Indian sweet potato weevil
- Category
- invertebrate
- Primary role
- pest insect
- Class
- Hexapoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Euscepes
Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Coleoptera | Curculionidae | Euscepes
External: GBIF #4292199
1 AI-consensus-verified claim across 1 interaction category.
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pest pressure 1 claim
- This entity is the subject of pest pressure on Ipomoea batatas (Akage) · effect: harmful
“The West Indian sweetpotato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus...is a destructive pest”
eats ✓ 2/2 AI critics agreedValenzuela, Hector; Fukuda, Steven; Arakaki, Alton (1994) · Sweetpotato Production Guides for Hawai'i · p. 5 #6495734