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Hercinothrips dimidiatus Hood (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a new pest of Aloe arborescens Miller in Europe

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Hercinothrips dimidiatus Hood (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) was detected in several localities in the region of Lisbon, in Portugal, infesting Aloe arborescens Miller (Asphodelaceae) and causing considerable damage. This is the first record of this thrips in Europe and in the Palaearctic region.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to Mário Oliveira and Teresa Vasconcelos for helping in field samples collection, and to “Martins Lemos, Soluções de Comunicação”, for the graphic composition of Figure 1. This work was part of the Projects UID/AGR/00239/2013 and PEst-OE/AGR/UI0245/2014 financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, IP (INIAV), Av. da República, 2784-505, Oeiras, Portugal

    Célia Mateus

  2. Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Carlos Franco, Maria Filomena Caetano, Elsa Borges da Silva, Ana Paula Ramos & Elisabete Figueiredo

  3. Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Centre (LEAF), ISA, 1349-017, Lisboa, Portugal

    Célia Mateus, Ana Paula Ramos & Elisabete Figueiredo

  4. Centro de Estudos Florestais (CEF), ISA, 1349-017, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Carlos Franco & Elsa Borges da Silva

  5. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

    Laurence Mound

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Mateus, C., Franco, J.C., Caetano, M.F. et al. Hercinothrips dimidiatus Hood (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a new pest of Aloe arborescens Miller in Europe. Phytoparasitica 43, 689–692 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12600-015-0492-z

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