Thysanoptera

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Thysanoptera
Subordines (2): Terebrantia - Tubulifera
References

Ananthakrishnan, T.N. 1979: Biosystematics of Thysanoptera. Annual review of entomology, 24: 159–183.
Collins, D.W. 2010: Thysanoptera of Great Britain: a revised and updated checklist. Zootaxa, 2412: 21–41. Preview
Fedor, P.J. et al. 2010: Heinrich Uzel, the father of Thysanoptera studies. Zootaxa, 2645: 55–63. Preview PDF
Minaei, K. 2013: Thrips (Insecta, Thysanoptera) of Iran: a revised and updated checklist. ZooKeys 330: 53–74. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.330.5939 Reference page.
Mound, L.A. 2011. Order Thysanoptera Haliday, 1836. Pp 201–202 In
Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page . (PDF) Reference page.
Mound, L.A. 2013: Order Thysanoptera Haliday, 1836. Zootaxa 3703(1): 49–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.11 Reference page.
Mound, L.A.; Morris, D.C. 2007: The insect order Thysanoptera: classification versus systematics. pp. 395–411 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W.A. (eds) Linnaeus tercentenary: progress in invertebrate taxonomy. Zootaxa, 1668: 1–766. PDF
Mound, L.A. & Wells, A. 2015: Endemics and adventives: Thysanoptera (Insecta) biodiversity of Norfolk, a tiny Pacific Island. Zootaxa 3964(2): 183–210. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.2.2. Open access. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Nel, P. et al. 2014: Redefining the Thripida (Insecta: Paraneoptera). Journal of systematic palaeontology, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2013.841781 Reference page.
Vierbergen, G. 2014: Thysanoptera intercepted in the Netherlands on plant products from Ethiopia, with description of two new species of the genus Thrips. Zootaxa 3765(3): 269–278. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.3.3 Reference page.
Wang, J.; Tong, X.; Wu, D. 2014: The effect of latitudinal gradient on the species diversity of Chinese litter-dwelling thrips. ZooKeys 417: 9-20. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.417.7895 Reference page.
Yoshizawa, K.; Saigusa, T. 2001: Phylogenetic analysis of paraneopteran orders (Insecta: Neoptera) based on forewing base structure, with comments on monophyly of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera). Systematic entomology, 26: 1–13. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2001.00133.x

Additional references

Foottit, R.G. & Maw, H.E.L. 2019. Thysanoptera of Canada. Pp 291–294 In Langor, D.W. & Sheffield, C.S. (eds.). The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 520 pp. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.26576 Reference page.

Links

CSIRO Entomology: Thysanoptera (Thrips) of the World – a checklist [1]

Vernacular names
Alemannisch: Fotzlefligler
беларуская: Пузыраногія
dansk: Thrips
Deutsch: Fransenflügler
English: Thrips
eesti: Ripstiivalised
suomi: Ripsiäiset
français: Thysanoptera
hrvatski: Resokrilci
magyar: Rojtosszárnyúak
日本語: アザミウマ目 (総翅目)
한국어: 총채벌레목
lietuvių: Tripsai
latviešu: Tripši
Nederlands: Tripsen
polski: Wciornastki
русский: Трипсы
slovenščina: Résarji
Türkçe: Saçak kanatlılar
中文: 纓翅目

Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute (mostly 1 mm long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts. Different thrips species feed mostly on plants by puncturing and sucking up the contents, although a few are predators. Entomologists have described approximately 6,000 species. They fly only weakly and their feathery wings are unsuitable for conventional flight; instead, thrips exploit an unusual mechanism, clap and fling, to create lift using an unsteady circulation pattern with transient vortices near the wings.

Many thrips species are pests of commercially important crops. A few species serve as vectors for over 20 viruses that cause plant disease, especially the Tospoviruses. Some species of thrips are beneficial as pollinators or as predators of other insects or mites. In the right conditions, such as in greenhouses, many species can exponentially increase in population size and form large swarms because of a lack of natural predators coupled with their ability to reproduce asexually, making them destructive to crops. In addition to damaging plants, thrips may invade houses and infest household objects such as furniture, bedding and computer monitors – in the latter case by forcing their way in between the LCD and its glass covering.[2] Their identification to species by standard morphological characteristics is often challenging.

Etymology

The first recorded mention of thrips is from the 17th century and a sketch was made by Philippo Bonanni, a Catholic priest, in 1691. Swedish entomologist Baron Charles De Geer described two species in the genus Physapus in 1744 and Linnaeus in 1746 added a third species and named this group of insects Thrips. In 1836 the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday described 41 species in 11 genera and proposed the order name of Thysanoptera. The first monograph on the group was published in 1895 by Heinrich Uzel who is considered the father of Thysanoptera studies.[3][1]

The generic and English name thrips is a direct transliteration of the ancient Greek θρίψ, thrips, meaning "woodworm".[4] Like some other animal names such as sheep, deer, and moose, in English the word thrips is both the singular and plural forms, so there may be many thrips or a single thrips. Other common names for thrips include thunderflies, thunderbugs, storm flies, thunderblights, storm bugs, corn fleas, corn flies, corn lice, freckle bugs, harvest bugs, and physopods.[5][6][7] The older group name "physopoda" is with reference to the bladder like tips to the tarsi of the legs. The name of the order Thysanoptera is constructed from the ancient Greek words θύσανος, thysanos, "tassel or fringe", and πτερόν, pteron, "wing", for the insects' fringed wings.[8][9][10]
Morphology
Typical Tubulifera thrips: the feathery wings are unsuitable for the leading edge vortex flight of most other insects, but support clap and fling flight.
Leaf suffering from thrips

Thrips are small hemimetabolic insects with a distinctive cigar-shaped body plan. They are elongated with transversely constricted bodies. They range in size from 0.5 to 14 mm (0.02 to 0.55 in) in length for the larger predatory thrips, but most thrips are about 1 mm in length. Flight-capable thrips have two similar, strap-like pairs of wings with a fringe of bristles. The wings are folded back over the body at rest. Their legs usually end in two tarsal segments with a bladder-like structure known as an "arolium" at the pretarsus. This structure can be everted by means of hemolymph pressure, enabling the insect to walk on vertical surfaces.[11][12] They have compound eyes consisting of a small number of ommatidia and three ocelli or simple eyes on the head.[13]
Asymmetric mouthparts of Heliothrips

Thrips have asymmetrical mouthparts unique to the group. Unlike the Hemiptera (true bugs), the right mandible of thrips is reduced and vestigial – and in some species completely absent.[14] The left mandible is used briefly to cut into the food plant; saliva is injected and the maxillary stylets, which form a tube, are then inserted and the semi-digested food pumped from ruptured cells. This process leaves cells destroyed or collapsed, and a distinctive silvery or bronze scarring on the surfaces of the stems or leaves where the thrips have fed.[15]

Thysanoptera is divided into two suborders, Terebrantia and Tubulifera; these can be distinguished by morphological, behavioral, and developmental characteristics. Tubulifera consists of a single family, Phlaeothripidae; members can be identified by their characteristic tube-shaped apical abdominal segment, egg-laying atop the surface of leaves, and three "pupal" stages. In the Phlaeothripidae, the males are often larger than females and a range of sizes may be found within a population. The largest recorded phlaeothripid species is about 14mm long. Females of the eight families of the Terebrantia all possess the eponymous saw-like (see terebra) ovipositor on the anteapical abdominal segment, lay eggs singly within plant tissue, and have two "pupal" stages. In most Terebrantia, the males are smaller than females. The family Uzelothripidae has a single species and it is unique in having a whip-like terminal antennal segment.[13]
Evolution

The earliest fossils of thrips date back to the Permian (Permothrips longipennis). By the Early Cretaceous, true thrips became much more abundant.[16] The extant family Merothripidae most resembles these ancestral Thysanoptera, and is probably basal to the order.[17] There are currently over six thousand species of thrips recognized, grouped into 777 extant and sixty fossil genera.[18]
Phylogeny

Thrips are generally considered to be the sister group to Hemiptera (bugs).[19]

The phylogeny of thrips families has been little studied. A preliminary analysis in 2013 of 37 species using 3 genes, as well as a phylogeny based on ribosomal DNA and three proteins in 2012, supports the monophyly of the two suborders, Tubulifera and Terebrantia. In Terebrantia, Melanothripidae may be sister to all other families, but other relationships remain unclear. In Tubulifera, the Phlaeothripidae and its subfamily Idolothripinae are monophyletic. The two largest thrips subfamilies, Phlaeothripinae and Thripinae, are paraphyletic and need further work to determine their structure. The internal relationships from these analyses are shown in the cladogram.[20][21]
Thysanoptera
Terebrantia
 

Melanothripidae
 
 

other Terebrantia
 
 
Tubulifera

Phlaeothripidae
 
 
Taxonomy

The following families are currently (2013) recognized:[21][22][13]

Suborder Terebrantia

Adult Franklinothrips vespiformis (Aeolothripidae), a widely distributed tropical species

Adiheterothripidae Shumsher, 1946 (11 genera)
Aeolothripidae Uzel, 1895 (29 genera) – banded thrips and broad-winged thrips
Fauriellidae Priesner, 1949 (four genera)
†Hemithripidae Bagnall, 1923 (one fossil genus, Hemithrips with 15 species)
Heterothripidae Bagnall, 1912 (seven genera, restricted to the New World)
†Jezzinothripidae zur Strassen, 1973 (included by some authors in Merothripidae)
†Karataothripidae Sharov, 1972 (one fossil species, Karataothrips jurassicus)
Melanthripidae Bagnall, 1913 (six genera of flower feeders)
Merothripidae Hood, 1914 (five genera, mostly Neotropical and feeding on dry-wood fungi) – large-legged thrips
†Scudderothripidae zur Strassen, 1973 (included by some authors in Stenurothripidae)
Thripidae Stephens, 1829 (292 genera in four subfamilies, flower living) – common thrips
†Triassothripidae Grimaldi & Shmakov, 2004 (two fossil genera)
Uzelothripidae Hood, 1952 (one species, Uzelothrips scabrosus)

Suborder Tubulifera

Phlaeothripidae Uzel, 1895 (447 genera in two subfamilies, fungal hyphae and spore feeders)

The identification of thrips to species is challenging as types are maintained as slide preparations of varying quality over time. There is also considerable variability leading to many species being misidentified. Molecular sequence based approaches have increasingly been applied to their identification.[23][24]
Biology
The Australian rainforest shrub Myrsine (Rapanea) howittiana is pollinated by Thrips setipennis.
Feeding

Thrips are believed to have descended from a fungus-feeding ancestor during the Mesozoic,[16] and many groups still feed upon and inadvertently redistribute fungal spores. These live among leaf litter or on dead wood and are important members of the ecosystem, their diet often being supplemented with pollen. Other species are primitively eusocial and form plant galls and still others are predatory on mites and other thrips.[9] Two species of Aulacothrips, A. tenuis and A. levinotus, have been found to be ectoparasites on aetalionid and membracid plant-hoppers in Brazil.[25]

Mirothrips arbiter has been found in paper wasp nests in Brazil. The eggs of the hosts including Mischocyttarus atramentarius, Mischocyttarus cassununga and Polistes versicolor are eaten by the thrips.[26] Thrips, especially in the family Aeolothripidae, are also predators, and are considered beneficial in the management of pests like the codling moths.[27]

Most research has focused on thrips species that feed on economically significant crops. Some species are predatory, but most of them feed on pollen and the chloroplasts harvested from the outer layer of plant epidermal and mesophyll cells. They prefer tender parts of the plant, such as buds, flowers and new leaves.[28][29] Besides feeding on plant tissues, the common blossom thrips feeds on pollen grains and on the eggs of mites. When the larva supplements its diet in this way, its development time and mortality is reduced, and adult females that consume mite eggs increase their fecundity and longevity.[30]

Pollination
Coffee tree leaves rolled up by Hoplandrothrips (Phlaeothripidae) damage

Some flower-feeding thrips pollinate the flowers they are feeding on, and some authors suspect that they may have been among the first insects to evolve a pollinating relationship with their host plants.[31] Scirtothrips dorsalis carries pollen of commercially important chili peppers.[32][33][34] Darwin found that thrips could not be kept out by any netting when he conducted experiments by keeping away larger pollinators.[35] Thrips setipennis is the sole pollinator of Wilkiea huegeliana, a small, unisexual annually flowering tree or shrub in the rainforests of eastern Australia. T. setipennis serves as an obligate pollinator for other Australian rainforest plant species, including Myrsine howittiana and M. variabilis.[36] The genus Cycadothrips is a specialist pollinator of cycads, the flowers of which are adapted for pollination by small insects.[37] Thrips are likewise the primary pollinators of heathers in the family Ericaceae,[38] and play a significant role in the pollination of pointleaf manzanita. Electron microscopy has shown thrips carrying pollen grains adhering to their backs, and their fringed wings are perfectly capable of allowing them to fly from plant to plant.[37]
Damage to plants

Thrips can cause damage during feeding.[39] This impact may fall across a broad selection of prey items, as there is considerable breadth in host affinity across the order, and even within a species, varying degrees of fidelity to a host.[28][40] Family Thripidae in particular is notorious for members with broad host ranges, and the majority of pest thrips come from this family.[41][42] For example, Thrips tabaci damages crops of onions, potatoes, tobacco, and cotton.[29][43]
Eusocial colonies of Kladothrips cause and live in galls on Acacia trees.

Some species of thrips create galls, almost always in leaf tissue. These may occur as curls, rolls or folds, or as alterations to the expansion of tissues causing distortion to leaf blades. More complex examples cause rosettes, pouches and horns. Most of these species occur in the tropics and sub-tropics, and the structures of the galls are diagnostic of the species involved.[44] A radiation of thrips species seems to have taken place on Acacia trees in Australia; some of these species cause galls in the petioles, sometimes fixing two leaf stalks together, while other species live in every available crevice in the bark. In Casuarina in the same country, some species have invaded stems, creating long-lasting woody galls.[45]
Social behaviour

While poorly documented, chemical communication is believed to be important to the group.[46] Anal secretions are produced in the hindgut,[47] and released along the posterior setae as predator deterrents[47][48] In Australia, aggregations of male common blossom thrips have been observed on the petals of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis and Gossypium hirsutum; females were attracted to these groups so it seems likely that the males were producing pheromones.[49]

In the phlaeothripids that feed on fungi, males compete to protect and mate with females, and then defend the egg-mass. Males fight by flicking their rivals away with their abdomen, and may kill with their foretarsal teeth. Small males may sneak in to mate while the larger males are busy fighting. In the Merothripidae and in the Aeolothripidae, males are again polymorphic with large and small forms, and probably also compete for mates, so the strategy may well be ancestral among the Thysanoptera.[13]

Many thrips form galls on plants when feeding or laying their eggs. Some of the gall-forming Phlaeothripidae, such as genera Kladothrips[50] and Oncothrips,[51] form eusocial groups similar to ant colonies, with reproductive queens and nonreproductive soldier castes.[52][53][54]
Flight
Main article: Clap and fling

Most insects create lift by the stiff-winged mechanism of insect flight with steady state aerodynamics; this creates a leading edge vortex continuously as the wing moves. The feathery wings of thrips, however, generate lift by clap and fling, a mechanism discovered by the Danish zoologist Torkel Weis-Fogh in 1973. In the clap part of the cycle, the wings approach each other over the insect's back, creating a circulation of air which sets up vortices and generates useful forces on the wings. The leading edges of the wings touch, and the wings rotate around their leading edges, bringing them together in the "clap". The wings close, expelling air from between them, giving more useful thrust. The wings rotate around their trailing edges to begin the "fling", creating useful forces. The leading edges move apart, making air rush in between them and setting up new vortices, generating more force on the wings. The trailing edge vortices, however, cancel each other out with opposing flows. Weis-Fogh suggested that this cancellation might help the circulation of air to grow more rapidly, by shutting down the Wagner effect which would otherwise counteract the growth of the circulation.[55][56][57][58]

Clap and fling flight mechanism after Sane 2003

Clap 1: wings close over back

Clap 2: leading edges touch, wing rotates around leading edge, vortices form

Clap 3: trailing edges close, vortices shed, wings close giving thrust

Black circle and heavy line: wing (rachis and bristles); Black (curved) arrows: flow; Blue arrows: induced velocity; Orange arrows: net force on wing

Fling 1: wings rotate around trailing edge to fling apart

Fling 2: leading edge moves away, air rushes in, increasing lift

Fling 3: new vortex forms at leading edge, trailing edge vortices cancel each other, perhaps helping flow to grow faster (Weis-Fogh 1973)

Apart from active flight, thrips, even wingless ones, can also be picked up by winds and transferred long distances. During warm and humid weather, adults may climb to the tips of plants to leap and catch air current. Wind-aided dispersal of species has been recorded over 1600 km of sea between Australia and South Island of New Zealand.[13]

A hazard of flight for very small insects such as thrips is the possibility of being trapped by water. Thrips have non-wetting bodies and have the ability to ascend a meniscus by arching their bodies and working their way head-first and upwards along the water surface in order to escape.[59]

Lifecycle
Thrips nymph.
Scale bar is 0.5 mm

Thrips lay extremely small eggs, about 0.2 mm long. Females of the suborder Terebrantia cut slits in plant tissue with their ovipositor, and insert their eggs, one per slit. Females of the suborder Tubulifera lay their eggs singly or in small groups on the outside surfaces of plants.[60]

Thrips are hemimetabolous, metamorphosing gradually to the adult form. The first two instars, called larvae or nymphs, are like small wingless adults (often confused with springtails) without genitalia; these feed on plant tissue. In the Terebrantia, the third and fourth instars, and in the Tubulifera also a fifth instar, are non-feeding resting stages similar to pupae: in these stages, the body's organs are reshaped, and wing-buds and genitalia are formed.[60] The adult stage can be reached in around 8–15 days; adults can live for around 45 days.[61] Adults have both winged and wingless forms; in the grass thrips Anaphothrips obscurus, for example, the winged form makes up 90% of the population in spring (in temperate zones), while the wingless form makes up 98% of the population late in the summer.[62] Thrips can survive the winter as adults or through egg or pupal diapause.[13]

Thrips are haplodiploid with haploid males (from unfertilised eggs, as in Hymenoptera) and diploid females capable of parthenogenesis (reproducing without fertilisation), many species using arrhenotoky, a few using thelytoky.[63] In Pezothrips kellyanus females hatch from larger eggs than males, possibly because they are more likely to be fertilized.[64] The sex-determining bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia is a factor that affects the reproductive mode.[40][63][65] Several normally bisexual species have become established in the United States with only females present.[63][66]
Human impact
A tomato infected with the thrips-borne Tospovirus, tomato spotted wilt virus
As pests
Ponticulothrips diospyrosi on finger

Many thrips are pests of commercial crops due to the damage caused by feeding on developing flowers or vegetables, causing discoloration, deformities, and reduced marketability of the crop. Some thrips serve as vectors for plant diseases, such as tospoviruses.[67] Over 20 plant-infecting viruses are known to be transmitted by thrips, but perversely, less than a dozen of the described species are known to vector tospoviruses.[68] These enveloped viruses are considered among some of the most damaging of emerging plant pathogens around the world, with those vector species having an outsized impact on human agriculture. Virus members include the tomato spotted wilt virus and the impatiens necrotic spot viruses. The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, has spread until it now has a worldwide distribution, and is the primary vector of plant diseases caused by tospoviruses.[69] Other viruses that they spread include the genera Ilarvirus, (Alpha|Beta|Gamma)carmovirus, Sobemovirus and Machlomovirus.[70] Their small size and predisposition towards enclosed places makes them difficult to detect by phytosanitary inspection, while their eggs, laid inside plant tissue, are well-protected from pesticide sprays.[61] When coupled with the increasing globalization of trade and the growth of greenhouse agriculture, thrips, unsurprisingly, are among the fastest growing group of invasive species in the world. Examples include F. occidentalis, Thrips simplex, and Thrips palmi.[71]

Flower-feeding thrips are routinely attracted to bright floral colors (including white, blue, and especially yellow), and will land and attempt to feed. It is not uncommon for some species (e.g., Frankliniella tritici and Limothrips cerealium) to "bite" humans under such circumstances. Although no species feed on blood and no known animal disease is transmitted by thrips, some skin irritation has been described.[72]
Management
A robberfly preying on thrips

Thrips develop resistance to insecticides easily and there is constant research on how to control them. This makes thrips ideal as models for testing the effectiveness of new pesticides and methods.[73]

Due to their small sizes and high rates of reproduction, thrips are difficult to control using classical biological control. Suitable predators must be small and slender enough to penetrate the crevices where thrips hide while feeding, and they must also prey extensively on eggs and larvae to be effective. Only two families of parasitoid Hymenoptera parasitize eggs and larvae, the Eulophidae and the Trichogrammatidae. Other biocontrol agents of adults and larvae include anthocorid bugs of genus Orius, and phytoseiid mites. Biological insecticides such as the fungi Beauveria bassiana and Verticillium lecanii can kill thrips at all life-cycle stages.[74] Insecticidal soap spray is effective against thrips. It is commercially available or can be made of certain types of household soap. Scientists in Japan report that significant reductions in larva and adult melon thrips occur when plants are illuminated with red light.[75]
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