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Short Communication, Silviculture • Floresta Ambient. 26 (3) • 2019 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8087.036018   copy

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

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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.

Keywords:
forest entomology; forest protection; Tectona grandis

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