(Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Issue No. 135
R. E. Woodruff And W. H. Pierce
August, 1973
Introduction
Scyphophorus acupunctatus Gyll. was first reported from Florida by Sleeper (1957:41), on the basis of a single specimen collected on the flowers of sisal (Agave sisalina Perrine) at Cape Sable, 28 may 1953. Vaurie (1971), in reviewing the genus Scyphophorus, did not list any additional Florida records, recently (18 may 1973), the species was discovered at an ornamental plant nursery at Samsula, Florida, by plant specialist J. N. Pott, in yuccas imported from California.