Frankliniella fusca (Hinds, 1902)

Elie, Ntirenganya, Yajin, Li, Yanlan, Xie, Yanli, Zhou & Hongrui, Zhang, 2021, Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 72670-72670 : 72670

Frankliniella fusca (Hinds, 1902)

Euthrips fusca Hinds, 1902: 154

Euthrips nicotianae Hinds, 1905: 198

Scirtothrips owreyi Watson, 1924: 51.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Z.H. R.; individualID: 2011-IX-15; individualCount: 9; sex: 2 males, 7 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 66; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Frankliniella fusca ( Hinds ); vernacularName: Tobacco thrips; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla ( Tropical Botanical Garden + Bubang Village ), Jinghong ( Nabanhe Protected Area + Botanical Garden ) ; decimalLatitude: 21.923235; decimalLongitude: 101.25605; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: ( ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 15/09/2011; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

flowers and fruits, collected from a wide range of host plants.

Distribution

Described from USA (Massachusetts) and worldwide distributed.

Notes

Vector of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV).