Hypsipyla grandella in Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla): Current Situation and Perspectives

• Autor(a) principal: Lunz, Alexandre Mehl
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Thomazini, Marcílio José Thomazini, Moraes, Maria Carolina Blassioli, Neves, Edinelson José Maciel, Batista, Telma Fátima Coelho, Degenhardt, Juliana, Sousa, Lindáurea Alves de, Ohashi, Orlando Shigueo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pesquisa Florestal Brasileira (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://pfb.cnpf.embrapa.br/pfb/index.php/pfb/article/view/15
• topic: Broca do ponteiro do mogno; broca das Meliaceae; Cedrela odorata; manejo integrado de pragas; Mahogany shoot borer; Meliaceae’s borer; Cedrela odorata; integrated pest management.

The mahogany wood, Swietenia macrophylla King, is valued in the international trade market forits beauty and durability for noble uses like furniture and decoration. Any attempt of commercial plantation ofthis specie to diminish the pressure made by its selective exploration fail due to the incidence of the mahoganyshoot borer, Hypsipyla grandella (Zeller). Although some works have had relative success in presenting controltechniques over the punctual aspects, a strategy of economic, an economic strategy for efficient and integratedmanagement practice was not established yet for H. grandella in Brazil. This study objective is to updatedata about the insect and its host based in the most recent studies made in Brazil, besides to indicate the mostprominent research areas for its control in S. macrophylla plantations in the Country. The most recommendedcontrol’s strategies for H. grandella are the host plant resistance use, silvicultural management, semiochemicalsand biological control, in which exist the need of income to the long term researches. Natural resistance testsof S. macrophylla procedences must be encouraged due to Brazil’s wide natural resource areas.