Host Plant Association and Distribution of the Onion Thrips, Thrips tabaci Cryptic Species Complex.

ABSTRACT: Onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman, 1889 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a pest of economic importance traditionally treated as a polyphagous, cosmopolitan single species. Recent genetic evidence, however, suggests that it is rather a cryptic species complex of three lineages referred to by their host association and displaying different biological and ecological characteristics: leek-associated 1, leek-associated 2 and tobacco-associated. This study reviews host plant associations and distribution of the lineages of this cryptic species complex and discusses its consequences from an agronomical perspective. Overall, leek-associated 2 lineage has the broadest host range, including major crops from different plant families, and it is the only lineage with a confirmed worldwide distrib

SUBMITTER: Loredo Varela RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8952806 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature