Host range and number of generations of pea thrips (Kakothrips pisivorus westwood, 1880) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Hungary

Jenser, G. and Almási, Asztéria and Tóbiás, I. (2012) Host range and number of generations of pea thrips (Kakothrips pisivorus westwood, 1880) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Hungary. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica, 47 (1). pp. 97-102. ISSN 0238-1249

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Abstract

The Fabaceae species Lathyrus tuberosus, Vicia species and Coronilla varia, all of which have an extended flowering period, provide the larvae food and shelter long enough for the pea thrips Kakothrips pisivorus to complete its development, and to have two generations yearly. Although flowers of pea cultivars also confer suitable conditions for egg laying, their flowering period is rather short. Therefore, the larvae are forced to move to developing pea pods in damaging numbers, resulting in the development of only one generation yearly on pea. However, specimens of K. pisivorus are able to colonize pea cultivars that have a similar phenology as Lathyrus tuberosus. Here we show that Hungarian pea thrips populations having either one or two generations are genetically identical.

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