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Invasion and Establishment of the Solanum Whitefly Aleurothrixus trachoides (Back) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in South India


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1 Forest and Wood Protection Division, Institute of Wood Science and Technology, 18th Cross, Malleswaram, Bengaluru 560 003, India
2 Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai 600 028, India
 

Trade, transport and travel are the major drivers of bioinvasions and will continue to increase as a by-product of globalization. Agricultural practices that simplify ecosystems by focusing on a small number of crops by eliminating predators and competitors generally make those systems more vulnerable to invasion. The Neotropical solanum whitefly, Aleurothrixus trachoides is found to be invasive in India; it is presently spreading fast in South India infesting many economically important plants of the family Solanaceae like brinjal (Figure 1 a), chilli (Figure 1 b), and tomato (Figure 1 c), and sandalwood (Figure 1 d), as well as some medicinal, ornamental (Figure 1 e) and weed species (Figure 1 f).
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  • Invasion and Establishment of the Solanum Whitefly Aleurothrixus trachoides (Back) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in South India

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Authors

R. Sundararaj
Forest and Wood Protection Division, Institute of Wood Science and Technology, 18th Cross, Malleswaram, Bengaluru 560 003, India
T. Amuthavalli
Forest and Wood Protection Division, Institute of Wood Science and Technology, 18th Cross, Malleswaram, Bengaluru 560 003, India
D. Vimala
Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai 600 028, India

Abstract


Trade, transport and travel are the major drivers of bioinvasions and will continue to increase as a by-product of globalization. Agricultural practices that simplify ecosystems by focusing on a small number of crops by eliminating predators and competitors generally make those systems more vulnerable to invasion. The Neotropical solanum whitefly, Aleurothrixus trachoides is found to be invasive in India; it is presently spreading fast in South India infesting many economically important plants of the family Solanaceae like brinjal (Figure 1 a), chilli (Figure 1 b), and tomato (Figure 1 c), and sandalwood (Figure 1 d), as well as some medicinal, ornamental (Figure 1 e) and weed species (Figure 1 f).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv115%2Fi1%2F29-31