Classification > Superfamily
Membracoidea
> Family
Cicadellidae
> Subfamily
Typhlocybinae
> Tribe
Empoascini
> Subtribe
Empoascina
> Genus
Hebata
> Subgenus
Hebata
Hebata (Hebata) fabalis (De Long, 1930)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Insects with no economic damage registered
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Santa Fe
- Tucumán
Other distribution
Portugal, Spain, United States, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil (Paradell et al. 1990).
- Empoasca batatae Poos, 1933
- Empoasca fabalis De Long, 1930
This leafhopper is cited as one of the main insect species that attacks sweet potato crops in Perú (Cetraro & Ortiz 1982).
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Poir.), potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), cotton Gossypium hirsutum L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) (Langlitz, 1964), tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mili.) and different species of bean (Southern, 1982) and on morning glory (Ipomea indica and Ipomea purpurea) (Paradell et al., 1990)
- LANGLITZ, H.O. 1964 (a). The economic species of Empoasca in the coastal and Sierra regions of Peru (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Revista Peruana de Entomología Agrícola, 7(1), 54-70.
- CETRARO L. & ORTIZ M.S. 1982. Ocurrencia estacional de insectos del camote (Ipomoea batatas), en la costa central del Perú. Revista Peruana de Entomología. 25 (1), 17-32.
- SOUTHERN, P.S. 1982 (a). A taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Empoasca (Homoptera:Cicadellidae) in eastern Peru. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 272, 1-194.
- PARADELL, S., VIRLA, E. & MARAGLIANO, S. 1990. Descripción de Empoasca fabalis De Long, 1930 (Cicadellidae - Typhlocibinae), un homoptero abundante sobre plantas de Ipomoea spp. en la provincia de Buenos Aires. Revista de la Asociación de Ciencias Naturales del Litoral, 21 (2), 117-127
