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First Report of Heterotermes longiceps (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae) Termite in Teak Plantations

  • Leonardo Leite Fialho-Junior,
  • Diego Arcanjo Nascimento,
  • Isabel Carolina de Lima Santos,
  • Otávio Peres-Filho,
  • Alexandre dos Santos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8087.036018
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 3

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ABSTRACT Heterotermes longiceps termites was observed causing injuries in Tectona grandis plants in a forest plantation in Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil. H. longiceps caused galleries below the bark, at the heartwood-sapwood interface, from the beginning of the root until approximately 1 m height tall and very infested plants has died. This is the first report of H. longiceps damage in teak in Brazil.

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