Taeniothrips eucharii

Nomenclatural details

Physothrips eucharii Whetzel, 1923: 30
Taeniothrips gracilis Moulton, 1928: 289
Taeniothrips rohdeae Kurosawa, 1937: 273.

Biology and distribution

Described from Bermuda (P. eucharii) from Eucharis x grandiflora (Amaryllidaceae), from Taiwan (T. gracilis) from bean flowers and from Tokyo, Japan (T. rohdeae) from Rohdea japonica (Fabaceae).

Distribution: Although described from Bermuda, this species originates from eastern Asia and is recorded from Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Japan. By plant trade it has been introduced to northern Australia, Hawaii and California, USA. In Europe Taeniothrips eucharii has been reported from the Netherlands and twice from Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, Ulitzka unpublished).
Taeniothrips eucharii is found on leaves but also on bulbs and in flowers of various lily and amaryllis plants such as Crinum, Eucharis, Hymenocallis, Liriope, Lycoris, Narcissus and Zephyranthes. This thrips sometimes causes a small amount of discolouration around the leaf bases of lilies. It is recorded as a vector of a tospovirus (HCRV).

References

Whetzel HH (1923) Report of the plant pathologist for the period January 1st to May 31st, 1922. Reports Board and Deptartment of Agriculture, Bermuda, 1922: 28–32.

Moulton, D (1928) New Thysanoptera from Formosa. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 18:287–328.

Kurosawa M (1937) Descriptions of four new thrips in Japan. Kontyu 11: 266–275.

Mound LA & Tree DJ (2008) The oriental lily-flower thrips, Taeniothrips eucharii (Whetzel) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) new to Australia. Australian Entomologist 35: 159–160.

Mound LA, Azidah AA & Ng YF (2012) Key to the non-fossil species of the genus Taeniothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 3414: 33–42.

Xu Y, Gao X, Jia ZQ, Li WG, Hu J, Li YZ & Liu YT (2017) Identification of Taeniothrips eucharii (Thysanoptera;Thripdae) as a vector of Hippeastrum spotted ringspot virus in southern China. Plant Disease 101: 1597–1600.

Miri B, Moeini-Naghadeh N, Vahedi H & Mirab-balou M (2020) Taeniothrips eucharii (Whetzel) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): a newly recorded species on rangeland plants in Iran. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 6 (1): 21–26.

Type information

Holotype (P. eucharii): National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA.

Holotype ♀ (T. gracilis): California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA.

Holotype (T. rohdeae): National Institute of Agricultural Science, Nishigahara, Kita-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.