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- Title
Seasonal Abundance of Thysanoptera Species in Tillandsia usneoides (Poales: Bromeliaceae).
- Authors
Demirozer, Ozan; Tyler-Julian, Kara; Funderburk, Joe
- Abstract
Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides (L.) (Poales: Bromeliaceae), is widely distributed in the southeastern United States. A diversity of arthropod species from numerous taxa are known to inhabit this common epiphytic plant. Thysanoptera species inhabiting Spanish moss were sampled monthly over the course of a year from trees in 4 different genera and included 10 species of thrips from 8 genera and 3 families represented. Breeding populations of predatory Karnyothrips (Phlaeothripidae) were common in Spanish moss during all months of the year. The adults of 2 phytophagous species of Frankliniella (Thripidae) were common in the spring months, but only a few larvae were collected over the course of the year. The adults of other species collected were: Heterothrips quercicola J. C. Crawford (Heterothripidae); Chilothrips pini Hood, Neohydatothrips variabilis (Beach), and Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard) (Thripidae); and Hoplandrothrips pergandei Hinds and Liothrips ocellatus Hood (Phlaeothripidae). Although a diverse group of phytophagous thrips species inhabited Spanish moss, there was little evidence that it was a host. It may simply have been a temporary shelter with no other biological significance. The predatory thrips were abundant probably feeding on the diverse group of small arthropods that inhabit Spanish moss.
- Subjects
THRIPS; SPANISH moss; PHYTOPHAGOUS insects; FRANKLINIELLA; SELENOTHRIPS; PREDATORY insects
- Publication
Florida Entomologist (Florida Entomological Society), 2015, Vol 98, Issue 4, p1179
- ISSN
0015-4040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1653/024.098.0424