Host Plants of the Banded Greenhouse Thrips

A Review of British Glasshouse Thysanoptera

“…3) Swezey (1945) intercepted it a t Honolulu and New Jersey on Cypipedium from England. Eide (1943) listed 51 species of plants infested in a greenhouse in Washington over several years with notes on degrees of infestation ; Amaryllidaceae were apparently preferred, though Narcissus sp. and Zephyranths candida were not particularly favoured.…”

“…Males are scarcer than females. Parthenogenesis has been discussed by White (1916), Bailey (1933) and Eide (1943). Pupation occurs on plants or in shelter on soil.…”

“…Not recorded in Britain. See Eide (1943) and Bailey (1933) for proportion of sexes in glasshouses in U.S.A. 1 described from Formosa. 1 from Kenya (mihi).…”