Abstract
The thrips is a serious pest of the tea plant in the world, in this paper all the scientific names of the thrips were listed. In this list, 5 had been found in Japan and Formosa, 8 in India, 1 in Ceylon and Nyasaland, 4 in Indonesia and 3 in Malaya, and 2 of the former had been found by the author.
In Japan Scirtothrips dorsalis gives most serious damage to the young shoots of tea plant, but others are not injurious. In Formosa S. dorsalis and Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis both gives less damage on tea plant. It was informed that they suffered serious damage by Taeniothrips setiventris in India and by Anaphothrips theiperdus, A. theivorus and A. theifolii in Indonesia.
