Leptoglossus clypealis
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Author(s): Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University
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Author(s): Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University
Source: IPM Images
Leptoglossus clypealis Heidemann, 1910
This leaf-footed bug has been originally described from western North America (California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah), but has spread eastwards, being now recorded up to Ontario in Canada as well as in New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina in the U.S. (Wheeler, 2018).
L. clypealis is mainly a pest of nut trees like almonds and pistachio, feeding on the fruits and seeds, but also on stems and leaves. It further attacks various other crops and plants. The feeding damage in nut crops results in premature fruit drop, especially early in the season, as well as in damage to the nuts later in the season, like kernel necrosis, black or brown spots on hull or kernel, and/or shrivelled kernels (Joyce et al., 2019). The adult is around 15-20 mm long and brown with an irregular white band across the corium of the forewings.
