Scirtothrips dorsalis

Nomenclatural details

Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, 1919: 90.

Heliothrips minutissimus Bagnall, 1919: 260.

Anaphothrips andreae Karny, 1925: 24.

Neophysopus fragariae Girault, 1927: 1.

Scirtothrips dorsalis var. padmae Ramakrishna, 1942: 169.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Australia (N. fragariae), India (S. dorsalis, S. padmae, H. minutissimus) and Sumatra, Indonesia (A. andreae).

References

Hoddle M & Mound LA (2004) The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 268: 1–40.

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1981) Identification, distribution and host-plants of the pest species of Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Bulletin of entomological Research 71: 467–479.

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

Ramakrishna TV (1942) Insects associated with the Lotus plant. Indian Journal of Entomology 4: 167–170.

Girault AA (1927) Some new wild animals from Queensland. Published privately Brisbane. pp. 1–3.

Karny H (1925) Die an Tabak auf Java und Sumatra angetroffenen Blasenfüsser. Bulletin van het deli Proefstation te Medan 23: 1–55.

Bagnall RS (1919) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera X. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)4: 253–277.

Hood JD (1919) Two new genera and thirteen new species of Australian Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 32: 75–92. 

Type information

Holotype (S. dorsalis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Lectotype female (H. minutissimus), The Natural History Museum, London.

Syntype (N. fragariae), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.