Thysanoptera intercepted in the Netherlands on plant products from Ethiopia, with description of two new species of the genus Thrips
Author
Vierbergen, Gijsbertus
text
Zootaxa
2014
3765
3
269
278
journal article
46424
10.11646/zootaxa.3765.3.3
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1175-5326
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Anaphothrips sudanensis
Trybom
This species is widespread in the subtropics and tropics (
Mound & Masumoto 2009
). It breeds on
Poaceae
, but is intercepted regularly during import inspections on other plants. Remarkably, the only interception in
the Netherlands
with larvae (
3 larvae
II) was on a consignment of
Monstera
,
Araceae
, imported from
Israël
,
14.viii.1997
. From
Ethiopia
a single female was intercepted on
21.xii.2011
, on
Rosa
—cut flower at an import firm in
De
Kwakel (J.G. de Zeeuw).