Dinurothrips hookeri
Recognition data
Distinguishing features
Female macropterous. Body dark brown and strongly reticulate, all tibiae and tarsi yellow to brownish yellow; fore wing brown with prominent veins and base paler; antennal segments III–V yellow, remaining segments brown. Antennae 8-segmented, III & IV with apex narrowed and bearing simple sensorium, III with long basal stem, VIII long and needle-like. Head wider than long, cheeks rounded, eyes prominent. Pronotum with anterior angles prominent, no long setae. Mesonotal posterior cleft incomplete. Metanotum reticulate, median setae near posterior margin, campaniform sensilla present. Fore wing first vein fused to costa, veinal setae small. Meso and metafurca with no spinula. Tergites III–VIII reticullate, median setae small and wide apart; VIII with no comb; X elongate with complete longitudinal split. Sternites without discal setae, VII with setal pairs S2 and S3 arising well in front of posterior margin. Male similar to female; sternites III–VII each with large U-shaped pore plate.
Related and similar species
Only two species are placed in Dinurothrips, and the second has 2-segmented tarsi and the mesonotum fully divided longitudinally.
Taxonomic data
Current valid name
- Dinurothrips hookeri Hood
Original name and synonyms
- Dinurothrips hookeri Hood, 1913: 151
Family placement
Thripidae, Panchaetothripinae
Biological data
Life history
Breeding on leaves.
Host plants
Recorded from various unrelated plants, including Solanum, Aster and Musa.
Tospoviruses vectored
None
Crop damage
Causing leaf damage to cultivated banana plants in Guam.
Distribution data
Area of origin
Neotropics, probably Caribbean
Distribution
This tropical species is widespread in the Caribbean, from Florida southwards to Brazil, and is also recorded from Guam and Malaysia.
