EPPO Global Database

Lepyronia quadrangularis(LEPOQU)

Distribution details in United States of America

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2014: Present, no details
Comments
Eastern USA.
References
* Doering KC (1922) Biology and morphology of Lepyronia quadrangularis (Say) - Homoptera, Cercopidae. Kansas University Science Bulletin 14(21), 513-587.
------- One of the most common spittlebugs of eastern USA.

* Hoebeke ER, Hamilton KGA (1983) Proceedings of the entomological society of Washington 85(2), 263-271 Lepyronia coleoptrata (L.), a European spittlebug in eastern North America: new locality records and new key to the North American species of Lepyronia Amyot and Serville (Homoptera: Cercopidae).
------- ‘Most commonly collected and widespread species in eastern North America’.

* Rosa C, Mc Carthy E, Duong K, Hoover G, Moorman G (2014) First report of the spittlebug Lepyronia quadrangularis and the leafhopper Latalus sp. as vectors of the Elm yellows associated phytoplasma, Candidatus Phytoplasma ulmi in North America. Plant Disease 98(1), 154-155.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Canada New Brunswick Present, no details view...
Canada Alberta Present, no details view...
Canada Manitoba Present, no details view...
Canada Ontario Present, no details view...
Canada Québec Present, no details view...
Canada Saskatchewan Present, no details view...
Canada Nova Scotia Present, no details view...
Canada Present, no details view...