Thripidae
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 Pear Thrip adult
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Dendrothripinae |
The Thripidae are a family of thrips with hundreds of genera.
This family is distinguished by a saw-like ovipositor bending downwards. It includes many pest species that suck up intracellular fluids of crop plants, such as the following species prominent in recent literature:
- Limothrips
- pecerealium - Grain thrips
- denticornis - Rye thrips
- Thrips
- meridionalis - Pea thrips
- tabaci - Onion thrips
- palmi - Melon thrips
- angusticeps
- Frankliniella
- robusta
- occidentalis - Western Flower thrips
- bispinosa - Florida Flower thrips
- fusca - Tobacco thrips
- schultzei - Blossom thrips
- Taeniothrips inconsequens - Pear thrips
- Scirtothrips
- dorsalis = Chili thrips
- perseae - Avocado thrips
The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, has recently expanded its range from Western North America to large portions of Europe and Asia through the trade of greenhouse plants.[1]
The Chilli thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis, is an Asian pest on many crops, including chili pepper, roses, strawberry, tea, ground nuts, and castor.
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[edit] Systematics
The Thripidae are ordered into four subfamilies:
- Dendrothripinae Priesner, 1925 (16 genera)
- Panchaetothripinae Bagnall, 1912 (38 genera)
- Sericothripinae Karny, 1921 (11 genera)
- Thripinae Stephens, 1829 (227 genera)
[edit] Further reading
- Hoddle, M.S. & Mound, L.A. (2003). The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 268:1-40. PDF
[edit] References
- ^ William D. J. Kirk, L. Irene Terry (2003). The spread of the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande). Agricultural and Forest Entomology 5 (4): 301–310. [1]
