TY - JOUR AU - Prade, Patricia AU - Minteer, Carey R AU - Cuda, James P PY - 2020/03/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Brazilian Peppertree Thrips Pseudophilothrips ichini (Hood) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae): EENY-737/IN1270, 7/2019 JF - EDIS JA - EDIS VL - 2020 IS - 2 SE - Featured Creatures Collection DO - 10.32473/edis-in1270-2019 UR - https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/115312 SP - AB - <p>The Brazilian peppertree thrips, <em>Pseudophilothrips ichini</em> (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, <em>Schinus terebinthifolia</em> 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 <em>Pseudophilothrips ichini</em> 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).<br><a href="https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1270">https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1270</a></p> ER -