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- Title
Periphoba hircia (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) Defoliating Plants of Acacia mangium in the State of Roraima, Brazil.
- Authors
Parreira, Douglas Silva; Zanuncio, José Cola; Hendrik Mielke, Olaf Hermann; Wilcken, Carlos Frederico; Serrão, José Eduardo; Zanuncio, Teresinha Vinha
- Abstract
The article presents a study that identifies the lepidopteran species whose larvae were found defoliating trees of Acacia mangium (A. mangium) in plantations in Roraima, Brazil from May to July 2010. It indicates that larvae of Periphoba hircia (P. hircia) defoliated A. mangium in the state. It suggests monitoring the foliage and P. hircia to ascertain its significance as pest of the plant.
- Subjects
LEPIDOPTERA; LARVAE; MANGIUM; FOLIAGE plants; DISEASE resistance of plants
- Publication
Florida Entomologist (Florida Entomological Society), 2014, Vol 97, Issue 1, p325
- ISSN
0015-4040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1653/024.097.0153