Haplothrips anthemidinus Priesner, 1950

Tunç, İrfan, Received, Andrea Hastenpflug-Vesmanis, Online, Published & Version, Final, 2016, Records and checklist of Thysanoptera in Turkey, Turkish Journal of Zoology 40 (5), pp. 769-778 : 775-776

Haplothrips anthemidinus Priesner

Material: Konya, Beyşehir Lake , Gagea sp. , 1♀, 15.V.1992 .

Haplothrips arenarius Priesner

Material: Erzurum, Kireçli-Pass , flowers of Helichrysum sp. , 22♀♀, 9♂♂ ( SMF T 12354 ), 23.VII.1983, leg. W. Heinz.

Remarks: First record for Turkey.

Haplothrips dianthinus Priesner

Material: Kars, Sarıkamış , flowers of Dianthus cf. calocephalus , 13♀♀ ( SMF T 12359 ), 26.VII.1983, leg. W. Heinz.

Remarks: First record for Turkey.

Haplothrips flavicinctus (Karny)

Material: Sakarya, Sapanca Lake , Cynodon dactylon , 1♂, 07.VIII.1992 .

Haplothrips gowdeyi (Franklin)

Material: Hatay, Dörtyol , Zea mays , 2♀♀, 1♂, 2.VIII.1982, leg. N. Sinsek.

Haplothrips knechteli Priesner

Material: Ankara, Quercus pubescens , 1♀, 13.VII.1978 - Antalya, Akseki , Amygdalus communis , 1♀ , Murtiç , Quercus sp. , 1♀, 14.VII.1988 , Geriş , 1♀, 29. VI.1989 ; Gündoğmuş, Güzelbağ , Amygdalus communis , 1♀, 21.VII.1988 ; Konyaaltı, Geyikbayırı , Amygdalus communis , 1♂, 23.II.1989 .

Haplothrips priesnerorum Pelikan

Material: Kars, Kağızman , violet flowers of Halanthium cf. roseum , 3♀♀, 3♂♂ ( SMF T 12356 ), 25.VII.1983, leg. W. Heinz ; flowers of Halanthium cf. roseum , 17♀♀, 6♂♂ ( SMF T 14394 ), 9.VIII.1985, leg. W. Heinz.

Remarks: First record for Turkey.

Haplothrips rabinovitchi Priesner

Material: Kilis, flowers of Fabaceae , Ulex sp. , 1♀ ( SMF T 7085), 13.IV.1976, leg. W. Heinz.

Remarks: First record for Turkey.

Haplothrips reuteri (Karny)

Material: Sakarya, Pamukova, Mekece , Centaurea solstitialis , 1♀, 2♂♂, 09.VIII.1993 - Karabük, Safranbolu , herb, 1♀, 11.VIII.1993 .

Hoplandrothrips bidens Bagnall

Material: Artvin, Yusufeli, İşhan , Lycopersicon esculentum , 1♂, 7.VII.1997, leg. Ş. Güçlü.

Remarks: First record for Turkey.

Liothrips austriacus (Karny)

Material: Burdur, Salda Lake , Amygdalus communis , 1♀, 11.V.1992 .

Liothrips pragensis Uzel

Material: Manisa, Salihli , Vitis vinifera , 1♂, 25.VI.2003, leg. F. Özsemerci.

In this study, data on 65 Thysanoptera species from Turkey are presented. Among them, 33 are from northwestern Anatolia. Although thrips were only collected during the summer, in August the species composition of the thrips fauna of northwestern Anatolia is almost similar to that of the parts of Turkey that have already been studied. However, Thrips atratus Haliday and Thrips fuscipennis Haliday seem to be more frequent and abundant in northwestern Anatolia than in other parts of the country. Frequency and abundance of T. fuscipennis is likely to increase in northern Turkey, such as in the Black Sea region ( Tunç, 1985), whereas it cannot be traced to the Mediterranean region and inner parts of Turkey.

Among the 65 species presented, 9 are new records for Turkey and the rest are new locality records. New records for Turkish fauna are Bregmatothrips willcocksi (Priesner) , Pseudodendrothrips mori (Niwa) , Cephalothrips coxalis Bagnall , Chiraplothrips graminellus Priesner , Haplothrips arenarius Priesner , Haplothrips dianthinus Priesner , Haplothrips priesnerorum Pelikan , Haplothrips rabinovitchi Priesner , and Hoplandrothrips bidens Bagnall.

A total of 193 Thysanoptera species have been recorded from Turkey to date. With the addition of the material deposited at Akdeniz University that remains to be identified down to the species level, this number well exceeds 200. This number is still comparatively low considering the area and location of the country and the rich diversity of its topography, climate, and flora. Extensive discoveries on the Thysanoptera of Turkey are expected. This is also the case for 2 neighboring countries in which, among all neighbors of Turkey, the highest numbers of Thysanoptera species have been recorded so far: Bulgaria with 155 species (Karadjova and Krumov, 2013) and Iran with 201 species (Minaei, 2015).

The checklist of the Turkish Thysanoptera reported by Lodos (1993) included 154 species.However, for the reasons specified below, the list may be considered to include less than 140 species. First, the list includes species that are of doubtful status, since they lack collection data. Therefore, the following species are excluded from the present list: Aptinothrips stylifer Trybom , Chaetanaphothrips signipennis Bagnall , Dendrothrips ornatus (Jablonowski) , Melanthrips acetosellae John , Limothrips consimilis Priesner , Limothrips schmutzi Priesner , Tenothrips croceicollis (Priesner) (synonym: Physothrips hispanicus Bagnall ), Apterygothrips hispanicus Bagnall , Haplothrips simplex (Buffa) , Haplothrips tardus Priesner , and Liothrips reuteri Bagnall. Second , the changes in nomenclature that preceded or followed the publication of the list were not reflected. Consequently, some species were listed twice with the inclusion of their synonyms, e.g., Aeolothrips tenuicornis Bagnall with clavicornis Bagnall, Aeolothrips collaris Priesner with meridionalis Priesner , Thrips flavus Schrank with obscuricornis Priesner, Thrips major Uzel with phytolaccae Priesner, and Neoheegeria dalmatica Schmutz with Neoheegeria hamanni Priesner. The latter is one of the examples of the changes in nomenclature that succeeded the disclosure of the list ( Minaei et al., 2007).

On the other hand, the status of Retithrips syriacus (Mayet) , which was included in the list of Lodos (1993), is disputable. Data on its presence in Turkey were presented only by Doğanlar and Yiğit (2002). Therefore, the latter should be considered to have recorded this species for the first time in Turkey.

The species that were reported as crop pests in Turkey without supporting data, e.g., Thrips flavus Schrank , Hercinothrips femoralis (O.M. Reuter) , and Liothrips oleae (Costa) ( Alkan, 1962; Lodos, 1993), could not yet be traced in Turkey. Alkan (1962) stated that some species (it was not clear which species) that he had listed had been confirmed by the British Museum of Natural History. Therefore, these 3 species were retained in the checklist, as they may be among those confirmed then.

Agrostothrips meridionalis (Bagnall) (syn: Chirothrips meridionalis Bagnall ) was erroneously stated as Chirothrips aculeatus Bagnall ( Tunç et al., 2012a). C. aculeatus has thus far been recorded only in the Manavgat district (locations: Bekirler and Bucakşeyhler) of Antalya Province in Turkey ( Tunç, 1992a).