Ceratothripoides claratris

Nomenclatural details

Taeniothrips claratris Shumsher, 1946: 178.

Mycterothrips moultoni Seshadri & Ananthakrishnan, 1954: 213.

Ceratothrips reticulatus Reyes, 1994: 183.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Taguig, Rizal, Luzon, Philippines on Datura sp. (C. reticulatus) and India (T. claratris, M. moultoni).

References

Shumsher Singh (1946) Studies on the systematics of Indian Terebrantia. Indian Journal of Entomology 7: 147–188.

Seshadri A & Ananathakrishnan TN (1954) Some new Indian Thysanoptera - 1. Indian Journal of Entomology 16: 210–226.

Reyes C.P. (1994) Thysanoptera (Hexapoda) of the Philippine Islands. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 42: 107–507.

Bhatti JS (2003) The genera Tenothrips and Ewartithrips (Terebrantia: Thripidae) and pigmented facets of eye in some Terebrantia. Thysanoptera 2003: 1–10.

Type information

Holotype female (C. reticulatus), Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra.

Holotype female (M. moultoni), unknown depositary.