Heterothrips decacornis

Nomenclatural details

Heterothrips decacornis Crawford DL, 1909: 110.

Heterothrips borinquen Hood, 1915: 1.

Heterothrips bonampakus Johansen, 1981: 160.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Mexico (H. decacornis, H. bonampakus) and Puerto Rico (H. borinquen). Recorded from Trinidad, Jamaica on cherry flowers and Guadeloupe in Malpighia flowers.

References

Crawford DL (1910) Thysanoptera of Mexico and the south II. Pomona College Journal of Entomology 2: 153–170.

Hood JD (1915) Descriptions of new American Thysanoptera. Insecutor inscitiae menstruus 3: 1–40.

Johansen RM (1981) Cinco nuevos Tisanopteros (Terebrantia: Heterothripidae; Thripidae) de Chiapas, Caxaca Y Veracruz, Mexico. Anales del Instituto de Biologia. Universidad Nacional de Mexico 51 [1980]: 321–338.

Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–488.

Type information

Holotype female (H. borinquen), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Syntype (H. decacornis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.