Thrips

Onion thrips Thrips tabaci, photographed by Nigel Cattlin.

Belongs within: Thripidae.

Thrips is a large genus of thrips, most diverse in the Holarctic and Old World tropics, though some species have become cosmopolitan pest species. These include the onion thrips Thrips tabaci and the melon thrips T. palmi, both of which feed on a wide range of crops and can transmit viruses between them. Members of Thrips are characterised by the absence of ocellar setae I, and the presence of paired tergal ctenidia posteromesad of the spiracles on tergite VIII (Mound & Marullo 1996). Phylogenetic analysis by Buckman et al. (2013) indicated that Thrips is paraphyletic to Microcephalothrips abdominalis, which has a particularly small head relative to the pronotum and seven-segmented antennae, and the genus Stenchaetothrips which has elongate ocellar setae pair II (Mound & Marullo 1996).

<==Thrips Linnaeus 1758 JR-SM-G05
    |--+--T. knoxi BMW13
    |  `--T. setipennis BMW13
    `--+--+--T. vulgatissimus BMW13
       |  `--Microcephalothrips Bagnall 1926 BMW13, MM96
       |       `--*M. abdominalis (Crawford 1910) [=Thrips abdominalis] MM96
       `--+--+--T. australis (Bagnall 1915) BMW13, MM96 (see below for synonymy)
          |  `--T. imaginis Bagnall 1926 BMW13, GM79
          `--+--T. simplex (Morison 1930) BMW13, MM96 [=Physothrips simplex MM96]
             `--+--T. nigropilosus BMW13
                `--Stenchaetothrips Bagnall 1926 BMW13, MM96 [incl. Anaphidothrips Hood 1954 MM96]
                     |--*S. melanurus Bagnall 1926 MM96
                     |--S. biformis (Bagnall 1913) [=Bagnallia biformis; incl. Chloethrips oryzae] MM96
                     |--S. brasiliensis (Hood 1954) [=*Anaphidothrips brasiliensis] MM96
                     `--S. minutus (Deventer 1906) (see below for synonymy) MM96

Thrips incertae sedis:
  *T. physapus Linnaeus 1758 MM96
  T. addendus (Priesner 1933) [=Taeniothrips addendus] MM96
  T. albopilosum KU07
  T. aligherini Girault 1927 G27b
  T. coprosmae Mound 1978 MM04
  T. darci Girault 1930 G30
  T. exilicornis MM96
  T. fasciata Linnaeus 1758 L58
  T. flavus M04
  T. florum Schmutz 1913 MM96
  T. formosanus Priesner 1934 S76
  T. hawaiiensis (Morgan 1913) [=Euthrips hawaiiensis] MM96
  T. helianthi C38
  T. indigenus Girault 1929 G29
  T. japonicus Bagnall 1914 GM79 [=T. partirufus Girault 1927 G27c]
  T. juniperina Linnaeus 1758 L58
  T. lacteicorpus Girault 1927 GM79
  T. major M04
  T. minutissima Linnaeus 1758 L58
  T. obscuratus (Crawford 1941) MM04
  T. orientalis (Bagnall 1915) [=Isoneurothrips orientalis] MM96
  T. pallicornis C38
  T. pallidulus Bagnall 1924 S76
  T. palmi Karny 1925 MM96
  T. parvispinus MC13
  T. safrus MC13
  T. seminiveus Girault 1926 G26
  T. shakespearei Girault 1927 G27a
  T. tabaci Lindeman 1889 MM96
  T. trehernei B08
  T. unispinus M04
  T. walteri Crawford 1938 C38

Stenchaetothrips minutus (Deventer 1906) [=Thrips minutus; incl. T. minutus var. puttemansi Costa Lima 1926, Stenchaetothrips saccharoni] MM96

Thrips australis (Bagnall 1915) BMW13, MM96 [=Isoneurothrips australis MM96; incl. I. marisabellae Ortiz 1973 MM96]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B08] Bartos, M. 2008. Alternative predatory tactics in a juvenile jumping spider. Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 300–305.

[BMW13] Buckman, R. S., L. A. Mound & M. F. Whiting. 2013. Phylogeny of thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) based on five molecular loci. Systematic Entomology 38: 123–133.

[C38] Crawford, J. C. 1938. Some new or little known Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 40 (2): 35–43.

[G26] Girault, A. A. 1926. New pests from Australia. IV. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 205).

[G27a] Girault, A. A. 1927a. Some new wild animals. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 208–210).

[G27b] Girault, A. A. 1927b. New Australian animals so far overlooked by outsiders. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 211–212).

[G27c] Girault, A. A. 1927c. A discourse on wild animals. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 216–217).

[G29] Girault, A. A. 1929. North American Hymenoptera Mymaridae. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 233–261).

[G30] Girault, A. A. 1930. New pests from Australia. VIII. Privately published (reprinted Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 273–277).

[GM79] Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 1–400.

[JR-SM-G05] Johansen, R. M., A. P. Retana-Salazar & A. Mojica-Guzmán. 2005. A review of the New World bryophyte-feeding genus Wegenerithrips Johansen 1983 (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 85 (1): 61–83.

[KU07] Khanjani, M., & E. A. Ueckermann. 2007. Natural enemies of the walnut pest Aceria tristriatus (Nal.) (Acari: Eriophyidae) in western Iran. In: Morales-Malacara, J. B., V. M. Behan-Pelletier, E. Ueckermann, T. M. Pérez, E. G. Estrada-Venegas & M. Badii (eds) Acarology XI: Proceedings of the International Congress pp. 451–453. Instituto de Biología and Faculdad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sociedad Latinoamericana de Acarología: México.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[MC13] Majer, J. D., S. K. Callan, K. Edwards, N. R. Gunawardene & C. K. Taylor. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 83: 13–112.

[MM04] Martin, N. A., & L. A. Mound. 2004. Host plants for some New Zealand thrips (Thysanoptera: Terebrantia). New Zealand Entomologist 27: 119–123.

[M04] Mound, L. A. 2004. Australian Thysanoptera—biological diversity and a diversity of studies. Australian Journal of Entomology 43 (3): 248–257.

[MM96] Mound, L. A., & R. Marullo. 1996. The thrips of Central and South America: an introduction (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–487.

[S76] Strassen, R. zur. 1976. Hochmontane Arisaema-Arten (Araceae) in Nepal als Wirtspflanzen floricoler Fransenflügler (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Senckenbergiana Biologica 57 (1–3): 55–59.

Last updated: 30 January 2019.