EPPO Global Database

Orthotospovirus tomatomaculae(TSWV00)

Vectors

Important note on vectors:
Information on vectors and their associated pathogens is a new feature of the database (April 2023). Data will gradually be entered by the EPPO Secretariat and will focus on regulated (quarantine) pests.
Organism Type
Frankliniella bispinosa (FRANBI) Known vector
* Jones DR (2005) Plant viruses transmitted by thrips. European Journal of Plant Pathology 113(2), 119-157.

* Webb S, Tsai J, Mitchell F (1998) Bionomics of Frankliniella bispinosa and its transmission of tomato spotted wilt virus. Abstract: Fourth International Symposium on tospoviruses and thrips in floral and vegetable crops. Wageningen, The Netherlands, p. 67.
Frankliniella cephalica (FRANCE) Known vector
* Ohnishi J, Katsuzaki H, Tsuda S, Sakurai T, Akutsu K, Murai T (2006) Frankliniella cephalica, a new vector for Tomato spotted wilt virus. Plant Disease 90(5), 685.
Frankliniella fusca (FRANFU) Known vector
* Jones DR (2005) Plant viruses transmitted by thrips. European Journal of Plant Pathology 113(2), 119-157.
Frankliniella gemina (FRANGE) Known vector
* de Borbon C, Gracia O, De Santis L (1999) Survey of Thysanoptera occurring on vegetable crops as potential Tospovirus vectors in Mendoza, Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad entomológica Argentina 58(3-4), 59-66.
Frankliniella intonsa (FRANIT) Known vector
* Jones DR (2005) Plant viruses transmitted by thrips. European Journal of Plant Pathology 113(2), 119-157.

* Wijkamp I, Almazara N, Goldbach R, Peters D (1995) Distinct levels of specificity in thrips transmission of tospoviruses. Phytopathology 85, 1069-1074.
Frankliniella occidentalis (FRANOC) Known vector
* Gardner MW, Tompkins CM, Whipple OC (1935) Spotted wilt of truck crops and ornamental plants. Phytopathology 25, 17.

* Jones DR (2005) Plant viruses transmitted by thrips. European Journal of Plant Pathology 113(2), 119-157.

* Reitz SR, Gao Y, Kirk WD, Hoddle MS, Leiss KA, Funderburk JE (2020) Invasion biology, ecology, and management of western flower thrips. Annual review of entomology 65, 17-37.
Frankliniella schultzei (FRANSC) Known vector
* Jones DR (2005) Plant viruses transmitted by thrips. European Journal of Plant Pathology 113(2), 119-157.

* Wijkamp I, Almazara N, Goldbach R, Peters D (1995) Distinct levels of specificity in thrips transmission of tospoviruses. Phytopathology 85, 1069-1074.
Thrips setosus (THRISE) Known vector
* Jones DR (2005) Plant viruses transmitted by thrips. European Journal of Plant Pathology 113(2), 119-157.

* Fujisawa I, Tanaka K, Ishii M  (1988) Tomato spotted wilt virus transmission by three species of thrips, Thrips setosus, Thrips tabaci and  Thrips palmi. Annals of the Phytopathological Society of Japan 54, 392.
Thrips tabaci (THRITB) Known vector
* Jones DR (2005) Plant viruses transmitted by thrips. European Journal of Plant Pathology 113(2), 119-157.

* Pittmann HA (1927) Spotted wilt of tomatoes. Preliminary note concerning the transmission of the ‘spotted wilt’ of tomatoes by an insect vector (Thrips tabaci Lind.).  Journal of Australian Council for Science and Industrial Research 1, 74-77.
Scirtothrips dorsalis (SCITDO) Potential vector
* Amin PW, Reddy DVR, Ghanekar AM (1981) Transmission of tomato spotted wilt virus, the causal agent of bud necrosis of peanut, by Scirtothrips dorsalis and Frankliniella schultzei. Plant Disease 65, 663–665.
------- Reported S. dorsalis as a vector of TSWV.

* German TL, Ullman DE, Moyer JW (1992) Tospoviruses: diagnosis, molecular biology, phylogeny, and vector relationships. Annual review of Phytopathology 30(1),315-48.
------- Showed that the report of Amin et al. (1981 - se above) was based on a misidentification of TSWV (the virus was actually groundnut bud necrosis virus).

* Toda S, Hirose T, Kakiuchi K, Kodama H, Kijima K, Mochizuki M (2014) Occurrence of a novel strain of Scirtothrips dorsalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Japan and development of its molecular diagnostics. Applied Entomology and Zoology, 49, 231–239.