Thrips palmi
Thrips palmi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Thysanoptera |
Family: | Thripidae |
Genus: | Thrips |
Species: | T. palmi
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Binomial name | |
Thrips palmi Karny, 1925
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Thrips palmi is an insect from the genus
It is a primary
Adults and nymphs feed by sucking the cell contents from leaves, stems, flowers and the surface of fruits, causing silvery scars and leaf chlorosis. Plants can be deformed and killed in heavy infestations. The pest almost certainly originated in Southeast Asia, but in recent decades it has been widely introduced and has been observed throughout Asia and the Pacific, Florida, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Australia.[1]
In Europe there have been outbreaks of T. palmi on crops in protected cultivation, including several in the Netherlands since 1988 and one in southern England in 2000. These were eradicated. In 2004, there was a report of T. palmi on an outdoor crop in Portugal. Thrips palmi has the potential to introduce and spread several non-indigenous plant viruses of the genus
Scientists in Japan report that significant reductions in larva and adult melon thrips occur when plants are illuminated with red light.[3]
References
- Notes
- ^ a b c d Thrips palmi, melon thrips. University of Florida IFAS.
- ^ Nault, L. R. (1997). Arthropod transmission of plant viruses: a new synthesis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 90: 521–41.
- ^ Katai, Yusuke; Ishikawa, Ryusuke; Doi, Makoto; Masui, Shinichi (2015). "Efficacy of Red LED Irradiation for Controlling Thrips palmi in Greenhouse Melon Cultivation". Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology & Zoology. 59 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1303/jjaez.2015.1.
- Sources
- Thrips palmi. University of Hawaii Extension.
- Vi Meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee of Plant Protection Directors, IICA, 12 June 1990, retrieved 2010-07-04