“…In the United States, races 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8 were identified (Cianchetta et al., ; Holmes, Bennett, Spurgeon, Colyer, & Davis, ; Kim, Hutmacher, & Davis, ). Race 4 (FOV4) was originally identified in India and has become a major threat to US cotton production (Halpern et al., ; Hutmacher et al., ; Zhu et al., ) since it was first reported in California in 2001 (Holmes et al., ; Kim et al., ). Other races are recognized in other cotton‐producing countries, including race 3 in Egypt and Israel, race 5 in Sudan, race 6 in Brazil, and races 7 and 8 in China (Hillocks, ; Sanogo & Zhang, ).…”