Ecacanthothrips spinipes

Nomenclatural details

Phloeothrips spinipes Bagnall, 1908: 195.

Ormothrips inermis Buffa, 1909: 168.

Ecacanthothrips bagnalli Priesner, 1930: 364.

Ecacanthothrips guineaensis Moulton, 1947: 176.

Biology and Distribution

Described from New Guinea (P. spinipes, O. inermis, E. guineaensis) and Kei Island, Malaysia (E. bagnalli). Recorded from Solomon Islands.

References

Palmer JM & Mound LA (1978). Nine genera of fungus-feeding Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera) from the Oriental Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 37: 153–215.

Moulton D (1947) Thysanoptera from New Guinea, the Philippine Islands and the Malay Peninsular. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 23: 172–180.

Priesner H (1930) Indomalayische Thysanopteren II. Treubia 11: 357–371.

Buffa (1909) I Tisanotteri esotici esistenti nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Redia 5: 157-172.

Bagnall RS (1908) On some new genera and species of Thysanoptera. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland 3: 183–217.

Type information

Holotype female (P. spinipes), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype female (E. guineaensis), California Academy of Science, San Francisco.

Holotype male (E. bagnalli), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.