Indian Journal of Entomology

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  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 83
  • Issue: 3

Diversity of Floral Thrips From Western Ghats of Karnataka

1Department of Entomology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur313001, Rajasthan, India

2Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterization, ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru560024, Karnataka, India

Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, V C Farm Mandya, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru571405, Karnataka, India

*Email: roselinp276@gmail.com (corresponding author)

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Abstract

The present study revealed the presence of 12 species of thrips associated with 25 species of flowering plants from Western Ghats of Karnataka. The observation showed that eight thrips species belonged to suborder, Terebrantia viz., Frankliniella schultzei (Trybom), Neohydatothrips samayunkur Kudo, Stenchaetothrips faurei (Bhatti), Thrips florum (Bagnall), Thrips hawaiiensis (Morgan), Thrips palmi Karny, Thrips tabaci Lindeman and Trichromothrips arorai Bhatti and four thrips species belong to the suborder Tubulifera viz., Thrips parvispinus (Karny), Haplothrips ganglbaueri Schmutz, Karnyothrips melaleucus (Bagnall) and Xylaplothrips ligs Ananthakrishnan and Jagadish. During the study, the density of flower thrip ranged from 1.24 to 9.20 and varied with the thrips species, and families of associated host plants. The study showed the presence of two abundant species viz., H. ganglbaueri and T. arorai from many of the host plants. A species of quarantine importance , T. parvispinus was also observed.

Keywords

Thysanoptera, Survey, Species diversity, Faunistics, Abundance, Density, Flowers, Thrips parvispinus, Quarantine, Tubulifera, Terebrantia, Genera, Species