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- Title
Host Specificity Studies on Gynaikothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) Associated with Leaf Galls of Cultivated Ficus (Rosales: Moraceae) Trees.
- Authors
Tree, Desley J.; Mound, Laurence A.; Field, Ashley R.
- Abstract
Host specificity tests on Gynaikothrips ficorum (Marchal) and Gynaikothrips uzeli (Zimmerman) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) have shown that under experimental conditions, G. ficorum will induce leaf galls on both Ficus benjamina L. and Ficus microcarpa L. f. (Rosales: Moraceae), but G. uzeli will induce galls only on F. benjamina. A further interesting aspect of the results is that gall induction by G. uzeli on F. benjamina appears to have been suppressed in the presence of F. microcarpa plants in the same cage. Liothrips takahashii (Moulton) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), an inquiline in the galls of these Gynaikothrips, is reported for the first time from Australia, mainland China, Malaysia, Costa Rica, and western USA.
- Subjects
WEEPING fig; FICUS (Plants); THRIPS; MORACEAE; ROSALES
- Publication
Florida Entomologist (Florida Entomological Society), 2015, Vol 98, Issue 3, p880
- ISSN
0015-4040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1653/024.098.0310