Spotted lanternfly is native to northern China ( Liu 1939).
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture maintains a website on their project, accessed 3 November 2015. This species is significant, due to its pest status in Korea, and recent invasive status in North America, where it is a potential threat to grapes, stone fruit, and some ornamental plants. This species has been known in China as a medicinal insect since the twelfth century and is used for relief from swelling ( Choi et al. Fulgorids are moderate to large planthoppers often referred to as lanternflies because the inflated front portion of the head found in some species that was once thought to be luminous. It is called “ggot-mae-mi” in Korea ( Han et al. Spotted lanternfly is actually not a fly, but a planthopper of the family Fulgoridae, also referred to as “spot clothing wax cicada” or “Chinese blistering cicada” in the literature. An exotic pest known as the spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula (White), was recently detected in Pennsylvania, USA ( Barringer et al.
