Brazilian Peppertree Thrips Pseudophilothrips ichini (Hood) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)
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Prade, Patricia, Carey R Minteer, and James P Cuda. 2020. “Brazilian Peppertree Thrips Pseudophilothrips Ichini (Hood) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae): EENY-737/IN1270, 7/2019”. EDIS 2020 (2). Gainesville, FL. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-in1270-2019.

Abstract

The Brazilian peppertree thrips, Pseudophilothrips ichini (Hood) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), is an insect native to Brazil (Figure 1). This species has been studied for the last 20+ years as a potential biological control agent of Brazilian peppertree, Schinus terebinthifolia Raddi (Sapindales: Anacardiaceae), in Florida (Cuda et al. 2008; Cuda et al. 2008; Manrique at al. 2014; Wheeler et al. 2016a, b). Host specificity experiments demonstrated that Pseudophilothrips ichini has a limited host range (Cuda et al. 2008; Cuda et al. 2009; Wheeler et al. 2017) and can cause a severe reduction of Brazilian peppertree biomass (Manrique at al. 2014).
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