extant species, plant pests
Thrips florum
Nomenclatural details
Thrips florum Schmutz, 1913: 1003.
Thrips parva Schmutz, 1913: 1004. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.
Thrips magnipes Schmutz, 1913: 1006. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.
Thrips rhodamniae Schmutz, 1913: 1008. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.
Thrips pallida Schmutz, 1913: 1015. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.
Thrips peradenyae Schmutz, 1913: 1015. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.
Thrips darci Girault, 1930: 1. Synonymised by Mound & Houston 1987: 9.
Thrips exilicornis Hood, 1932: 129. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.
Thrips florum var. dunbariae Priesner, 1934: 261. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.
Biology and distribution
Described from Sri Lanka (T. florum, T. rhodamniae, T. peradenyae, T. parva, T. pallida T. magnipes), Nigeria (T. exilicornis), Java, Indonesia (T. dunbariae) and Australia (T. darci).
Distribution: T. florum is widespread across Asia from India to the Pacific, Fiji, Tahiti and eastern Australia. It also has been reported from different regions in Africa: Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania (Ulitzka unpublished) and Uganda. Furthermore, it is known from different parts of the Americas: Bahamas, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Florida, USA.
T. florum is a highly polyphagous flower-dwelling species which can attack various crops such as bananas, citrus, coffee and mango. It also has been recorded on ornamental plants like gladiolus, Gardenia and roses.
References
Schmutz K (1913) Zur Kenntnis der Thysanopterenfauna von Ceylon. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 122 (7): 991–1089 including 6 plates
Girault AA (1930) New pests from Australia, VIII. Published privately, Brisbane pp. 1–5.
Priesner H (1934) Indomalayische Thysanopteren VII [VI]. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 94: 254–290.
Hood JD (1932) New species of the genus Thrips from Central Africa and Egypt. Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d’Egypte 1932: 115–140.
zur Strassen R (1978) Thysanopterologische Notizen (4) (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Senckenbergiana Biologica 58: 185–202.
Bhatti JS (1983) Revision of Thrips species described by Schmutz. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 84 B: 479-507.
Nakahara S (1985) Review of Thrips hawaiiensis and revalidation of T. florum (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 87: 864-870.
Mound LA & Houston KJ ( 1987) An annotated check-list of Thysanoptera from Australia. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 4: 1-28.
Nakahara S (1994) The genus Thrips Linnaeus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the New World. Technical Bulletin. United States Department of Agriculture 1822: 1–183.
Mound LA & Masumoto M (2005) The genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Zootaxa 1020: 1–64.
Mound LA & Nickle DA (2009) The Old-World genus Ceratothripoides (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with a new genus for related New-World species. Zootaxa 2230: 57–63.
Type information
Lectotype ♀: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna [Bhatti, 1983: 484]
Holotype (T. exilicornis): National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Holotype (T. darci): Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
Holotype ♀ (T. florum var. dunbariae): Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.