Thrips on Culantro
Posted by aubreymoore on 08 Feb 2009 at 04:04 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized
- thrips damage to culantro leaf
Small immature thips feeding on culantro (Eryngium foetidum) leaves. Body length of largest is about 0.8 mm. They feed adjacent to the midriff and cause significant silvering. Many carried fecal matter on their raised abdomen. No adults were collected.
My guess is that this is the greenhouse thrips, Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché). This species was reported from Guam by D. Nafus in An Insect Survey of the Federated Satates of Micronesia and Palau, SPC Technical Paper No. 210. 1997.
Collection Data
AM20090208.001 ex culantra leaves Guam: Tom Blas Farm coll. J. Bamba 1 FEB 2009
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