Thrips palmi Karny, 1925

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

Thrips palmi Karny, 1925

Thrips clarus Moulton, 1928: 294 | Thrips leucadophilus Priesner, 1936: 91

Thrips gossypicola Ramakrishna & Marghabandu, 1939: 41 | Chloethrips (Mictothrips) aureus Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish, 1967: 381. Synonymised by Bhatti (1970)

Thrips gracilis Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish, 1968: 361. Synonymised by Bhatti (1970).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: E.N, L.Y. J, L.H, Y,X.Q & Z.H. R; individualID: 2015-X-6 | 2015-X-7 | 2016-III-17 | 2016-V-11 | 2016-V-12 | 2017-IX-8 | 2017-IX-12 | 2017-VIII-9 | 2019-VIII-18; individualCount: 364; sex: 112 males, 252 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 106; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Thrips palmi Karny ; vernacularName: melon thrips; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 21.915456; decimalLongitude: 101.275664; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 06/10/2015, 07/10/2015, 11/05/2016, 12/05/2016, 17/03/2016, 12/05/2017, 09/08/2017, 08/09/2017, 18/08/2019; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

flowers, leaves. Collected from Apiaceae , pepper, eggplants, carrots and potatoes

Distribution

Described from Indonesia and widely distributed from the Tropics to Caribbean Regions.