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== Nomenclatural details ==
''Cryptothrips insularis'' Bagnall, 1914: 295. 

''Cryptothrips icarus tuberculatus'' Priesner, 1922: 105. Synonymised by Mound, 1968: 141.

''Cryptothrips brachyurus'' Bagnall, 1927: 573. Synonymised by Mound, 1968: 141.

''Bolothrips arenarius'' Priesner, 1950: 36. Synonymised by Mound, 1974: 121. 

== Biology and Distribution ==
Described from the Canary Islands, but widespread in southern Europe and Mediterranean countries. 

== References ==
Bagnall RS (1914) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera III. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (8)13: 287–297. 

Priesner H (1922) Ueber albanische Thysanopteren. ''Wiener Entomologische Zeitung'' 39: 105–107. 

Bagnall RS (1927) Contributions towards a knowledge of the European Thysanoptera II. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. (9)19: 564–575. 

Priesner H (1950) Contributions towards a knowledge of the Thysanoptera of Egypt, XV. ''Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d'Egypte''. 34: 25–37. 

Mound LA (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology Supplement'' 11: 1-181. 

Mound LA (1974) The ''Nesothrips'' complex of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology'' 31: 109–188.

== Type information ==
Holotype female (''C. insularis''), Natural History Museum, London.

Lectotype male (''C. brachyurus''), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype female (''C. tuberculatus''), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Syntypes (''B. arenarius''), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. 

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