Abstract

CARRIZO, P.I  and  AMELA GARCIA, M.T. Vegetación espontánea en el cinturón hortícola platense hospedante de Thripidae (Thysanoptera) vectores de Tospovirus. RIA. Rev. investig. agropecu. [online]. 2017, vol.43, n.1, pp.78-91. ISSN 1669-2314.

The tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is a Bunyaviridae that causes different symptoms to plants, even death. In Argentina, there are 4 thrips species reported as vectors of Tospovirus: Frankliniella occidentalis, Frankliniella schultzei, Frankliniella gemina and Thrips tabaci. The spontaneous vegetation growing within uncontrolled weedy areas near greenhouse peppers were identified as true reproductive hosts of thrips vectors, by means of adult and larval identification. Three sites were studied within the horticultural belt, a strip of 40 km around La Plata City (34°54’ lat. S, 57°55’ long. O), Argentina. During 2000-2003, monthly surveys were performed in the areas of the greenhouses were weed control does not take place, extracting flowers from the spontaneous vegetation. Through 60 sampling dates, 14,636 flowers of spontaneous vegetation were collected, and 54,050 Thysanoptera individuals were obtained, 40,356 were adults (96.96% Thripidae vs. 3.04% Phlaeothripidae) and 13,694 were larvae of 1st and 2nd stage (94.1% Thripidae and 5.9% Aeolothripidae and Phlaeothripidae). The four species seem to have very similar requirements, due the overlap respect to their feeding and breeding hosts. The botanical family was not related to the presence of thrips vectors, neither in adult or larval stage. Out of 40 surveyed weed species, 19 resulted non-host (NoH), 21 feeding host (HA), and the remnant 19, reproductive hosts (HR), (18 in wide sense and 11 in strict sense) for one, two, three or four species of thrips.

Keywords : Frankliniella occidentalis; Frankliniella schultzei; Frankliniella gemina; Thrips tabaci; Feed hosts; Reproductive hosts.

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