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. 2017 Jul 6;15(7):e04927. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4927

Table 2.

Global distribution of Spodoptera frugiperda with sub‐national distribution for large countries. Distribution primarily based on information from the CABI Crop Protection Compendium, EPPO GD, IITA and Abrahams et al. (2017) (r = resident; m = migrant)

Region Country (EPPO, 2017a, 2017b; CABI 2017 unless shown otherwise) Sub‐national distribution (e.g. States/Provinces)
North America Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, USA

Canada (only in summer as a migrant): Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec

USA (resident in Texas and Florida; elsewhere migrant): Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Central America & Caribbean Assumed to be resident (r) in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands
South America Argentina (m), Bolivia, Brazil, Chile (m), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay (m), Peru, Suriname, Uruguay (m), Venezuela
Europe An occurrence in Germany in 1999 is assumed not to have persisted (see Section 3.2.2). There are interception records for the UK and the NL but no establishment (see Section 3.4)
Africa Benin (IITA, 2016), Democratic Republic of Congo (FAO, 2017), Ghana, Kenya (Republic of Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries, 2017), Nigeria (IITA, 2016), Sao Tome and Principe (FAO, 2017), South Africa (Abrahams et al., 2017; Daff, 2017), Swaziland (IPPCa, 2017), Togo (IITA, 2016), Zambia, (IPPCb, 2017), Zimbabwe (FAO, 2017)
Asia An occurrence in Israel in 1967 is assumed not to have persisted (see below)
Oceania Not known to occur