Dichelops furcatus
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Author(s): Natasha Wright, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
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Dichelops furcatus (Fabricius 1775)
This green-belly stink bug occurs in South and Central America. It has been rare before the 1980s, but since then has become a serious pest of wheat, sunflower and maize. Other crops attacked include soybean and oat. Damage has been mainly reported from the southern cone of South America, that is in southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and north-central Argentina.
Seedlings may be infested or the developing seed heads of cereals are attacked during the booting and/or milk-grain stages. This results in discoloured seed heads, undeveloped and malformed grains and a reduction of grain yield. On soybean, the main damage occurs during the pod-filling stage. For a brief summary of the damage see Panizzi et al. (2018).
Synonyms:
Diceraeus furcatus
