Maycon C Barbosa, Bruno S Francisco, Jocélia Grazia, José A M Fernandes, Carlos F Wilcken, José C Zanuncio, Pedro J Ferreira-Filho
This is the first report of Antiteuchus tripterus (Fabricius, 1787) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) damaging Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze, 1898 (Pinales: Araucariaceae) plants in Brazil. This bug, native to the neotropical region, damaged this plant on fragments of mixed rain forest in Bueno Brandão, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Araucaria angustifolia, native and with ecological and economic values, was widely used in the lumber market and, therefore, threatened with extinction. Nymphs and adults of A...
November 30, 2023: Neotropical Entomology