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Scirtothrips
Genus information
Scirtothrips Shull, 1909: 222. Type species Scirtothrips ruthveni Shull, 1909, by monotypy.
Sericothripoides Bagnall, 1929: 69. Type species Dendrothrips bispinosus Bagnall 1924, by monotypy. Synonym by Hood, 1935.
Sericopsothrips Hood, 1936: 83. Type species Sericopsothrips palloris Hood, 1936, by monotypy. Synonymised by Ng & Mound, 2015: 391.
Labiothrips Bhatti & Mound, 1994: 162. Type species Labiothrips tenor Bhatti & Mound, 1994, by monotypy. Synonymised by Hoddle & Mound, 2003: 7.
Biology and Distribution
The leaf-feeding species of this genus are found worldwide. Several are pests of various crops (Mound & Palmer, 1981), although the widespread pest, Scirtothrips dorsalis, remains a taxonomic problem (Mound & Stiller, 2011; Dickey et al., 2015). Moreover, the validity of many of the species described from Mexico (Johansen & Mojica-Guzman, 1998) is in doubt (Mound & zur Strassen, 2001; Hoddle et al, 2008; Mound & Hoddle, 2016).
Click to see a list of the 111 extant Scirtothrips species.
References
Shull AF (1909) Some apparently new Thysanoptera from Michigan. Entomological News 20: 220–228.
Bagnall RS (1929) On some new and interesting Thysanoptera of economic importance. Bulletin of entomological Research 20: 69–76.
Hood JD (1936) Nine new Thysanoptera from the United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 44: 81–100.
Mound LA & Palmer JM (1981) Identification, distribution and host-plants of the pest species of Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 71: 467-479.
Bhatti JS & Mound LA (1994) A new genus of Terebrantian Thysanoptera from New Guinea, related to Foliothrips and Cestrothrips (Thripidae). Zoology (Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology) 4: 161–176.
Johansen RM & Mojica-Guzman A (1999) The genus Scirtothrips Shull, 1909 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae, Sericothripini), in Mexico. Folia entomologica Mexicana 104: 23-108.
Mound LA & zur Strassen, R (2001) The genus Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Mexico: a critique of the review by Johansen & Mojica-Guzmán (1998). Folia Entomologica Mexicana 40: 133-142.
Hoddle MS & Mound LA (2003) The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 268: 1-40.
Hoddle MS, Mound LA, Rugman-Jones PF & Stouthamer R (2008) Synonymy of five Scirtothrips species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) described from Avocados (Persea americana) in Mexico. Florida Entomologist 91: 16-21.
Mound L. & Stiller M (2011) Species of the genus Scirtothrips from Africa (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 2786: 51-61.
Ng YF, Mound LA & Azidah AA (2014) The genus Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Malaysia, with five new species and comments on Biltothrips, a related genus. Zootaxa 3856 (2): 253-266.
Ng Y F & Mound LA (2015) Genera of the Scirtothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with a new species of Siamothrips from Malaysia. Zootaxa 4021 (2): 387–394.
Dickey AM, Kumar V, Hoddle MS, Funderburk JE, Morgan JK, Jara-Cavieres A, Shatters RG, Osborne LS, & McKenzie CL. (2015) The Scirtothrips dorsalis species complex: endemism and invasion in a global pest. PlosOne April 2015, pp1-22. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0123747 [1]
Mound, L. & Hoddle, M (2016) Scirtothrips species (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) described from mango, Mangifera indica, in Mexico. Florida Entomologist 99(4):759-764.