Host range: Sweet Potato: Potato
Symptoms of damage

• Grubs and adults bore into tubers, field and storage.
• Adult weevils feed on vines,  leaves

Identification of the pest

• Egg - laid in cavities on vines or tubers
• Pupate inside vine or tuber inside tuber
• Adult- - Slender, antlike with long snout, shiny black with reddish brown thorax and leg