Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande, 1895)

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 occidentalis (Pergande, 1895)

Euthrips occidentalis Pergande, 1895: 392

Euthrips tritici californicus Moulton, 1911: 16

Euthrips helianthi Moulton, 1911: 40

Frankliniella tritici moultoni Hood, 1914: 38

Frankliniella nubila Treherne, 1924: 84. Synonymised by Nakahara (1997)

Frankliniella tritici maculata Priesner, 1925: 15. Synonymised by Nakahara (1997)

Frankliniella claripennis Morgan, 1925: 142

Frankliniella canadensis Morgan, 1925: 143. Synonym of californicus in Moulton (1948)

Frankliniella trehernei Morgan, 1925: 144

Frankliniella occidentalis brunnescens Priesner, 1932: 182

Frankliniella occidentalis dubia Priesner, 1932: 182

Frankliniella venusta Moulton, 1936: 172

Frankliniella conspicua Moulton, 1936: 173. Synonymised by Nakahara (1997)

Frankliniella chrysanthemi Kurosawa, 1941: 173

Frankliniella dahliae Moulton, 1948: 97

Frankliniella dianthi Moulton, 1948: 98. Synonymised by Mound and Marullo (1996)

Frankliniella syringae Moulton, 1948: 98. Synonymised by Mound and Marullo (1996)

Frankliniella umbrosa Moulton, 1948: 105. Synonymised by Nakahara (1997).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: K.B; individualID: 2015-X-6; individualCount: 6; sex: 1 male, 5 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 68; Taxon : scientificNameAuthorship: Frankliniella occidentalis ( Pergande ); vernacularName: Western flowers thrips (WFT); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Jinghong ( Mansha Village ; decimalLatitude: 21.935976; decimalLongitude: 101.263955; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: ( ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 06/10/2015; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

flowers and leaves, collected from potatoes and banana flowers.

Distribution

Described from USA (California) and worldwide distributed.

Notes

Vector of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV).