O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 69. (Budapest, 2008)

Thrips klapaleki UZEL, 1895 - It is known from the Western Palaearctic (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Northern Italy, Poland, the Netherlands), occurring in moist meadows, living on orchids (PRIESNER 1964), mainly on Dactylorhiza, Gymnadenia and Orchis species. I have collected three females in the eastern part of the Hungarian Great Plain, at Biharugra in a moist meadow on Dactylorhiza incarnata, on 19.VI. 1998.1 have found further specimens in Transylvania, Romania: three females at Luete (Harghita Mts) on Gymnadenia conopea, one female at Bäisoara (Bihor Mts) on Dactylorhiza maculata (JENSER et al. 2005). Probably the Carpathian Basin belongs to the easternmost part of its geographical distribution. ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN Occurrence of Limothrips cerealium According to ZUR STRASSEN (2003) Limothrips cerealium HALIDAY, 1836 is a semicosmopolitan, presumably an Atlantic-west-European species that expanded towards East Europe in the last few years. It was published for the first time in the Carpathian Basin from Losonc (Lucenec), now in Slovakia, by JABLONOWSKI (1899). PRIESNER (1928) mentioned it from "Losonc", with the comment that "probably introduced". No further data were known from the Carpathian Basin (see KNECHTEL 1951, JENSER 1979). PELIKÁN (1977) deleted L. cerealium from the list of Thysanoptera of Czechoslovakia, considering it to be a misidentification. CZENCZ (1994) found 91 females and 30 males at Röjtökmuzsaj on Triticum vulgare and 15 females and five males on Phalaris canariensis on 15.VI.1993. CZENCZ also presumed that L. cerealium was adventive. Further specimens were found by sweeping Poaceae at Kétvölgy ( 1 female, 9.VIII. 1994. leg. Cs. THURÓCZY), Ság-hegy (one female, 5.VIL 1994, leg. Cs. THURÓCZY), Várbalog (three females, 28.VI.2000, leg. A. PODLUSSÁNY) and Feketeerdő (two females, VII.1989, leg. A. PODLUSSÁNY). The above-mentioned specimens of L. cerealium were collected in West Hungary, a region having Atlantic climatic conditions. According to these data L. cerealium is a native and not an adventive species in the western part of the Carpathian Basin. Since the Thysanoptera collection of JABLONOWSKI was destroyed in introduced World War II, it is not possible to check the identity of the specimens collected at Losonc (Lucenec). Vertical distribution of Ankothrips niezabitowskii and Thrips juniperinus Both monophagous species live on Juniperus communis (PRIESNER 1928). A niezabitowskii (SCHILLE, 1776) is distributed in Middle and South Europe (PRIESNER 1964), Thrips juniperinus LINNAEUS, 1758 is recorded from Europe (ZUR STRASSEN 2003).