White-fringed Beetles, Graphognathus spp.

Graphognathus leucoloma leucoloma IBoheman), the white-fringed beetle, was first collected in North America near Svea, Florida in 1936 (Buchanan 1939). This species and three others (Q. minor (Buchanan), G. peregrinus (Buchanan), G. fecundus Buchanan) comprise the white-fringed beetle complex in North America (Buchanan 1947, Warner 1975). White-fringed beetles are considered serious pests of many agricultural crops (Young et al. 1950) and have recently become pests of young pines planted on converted croplands in the South.