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First Report of Heterotermes longiceps (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae) Termite in Teak Plantations
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posted on 2019-07-24, 03:10 authored by Leonardo Leite Fialho-Junior, Diego Arcanjo Nascimento, Isabel Carolina de Lima Santos, Otávio Peres-Filho, Alexandre dos SantosABSTRACT 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.
