Aeolothrips

Aeolothrips melaleucus Mesonotum & metanotum

Genus information

Aeolothrips Haliday, 1836: 451. Type species Aeolothrips albicincta Haliday, by monotypy.

Coleothrips Haliday, 1836: 451. Type species Thrips fasciatus Linneaus, by subsequent designation of Westwood (1840). Synonymy in Priesner, 1925.

Pygaeolella Priesner, 1926: 101. Type species Aeolothrips albicincta Haliday, by subsequent designation of Bagnall (1929). Synonymy in Priesner, 1938.

Podaeolella Priesner, 1926: 114. Type species Aeolothrips versicolor Uzel, by subsequent designation of Bagnall (1929). Treated as synonym in Mound et al., 1976

Orthoaeolothrips Melis, 1932: 183. No type species designated (see Redia, 20: 41).

Plagioaeolothrips Melis, 1932: 183. No type species designated (see Redia, 20: 41).

Aeolothrips (Gevarothrips) Lacasa Plasencia, 1983: 74. Type species Aeolothrips bournieri Lacasa Plasencia, by monotypy. Sub-genus not distinguished by zur Strassen, 2003.

Fabothrips Bhatti, 1988: 116. Type species Aeolothrips vittipennis Hood, by monotypy. Synonymy in Mound & Marullo, 1996.

Arabthrips Bhatti, 1999: 7. Type species Aeolothrips asirensis Strassen, by monotypy.

Biology and Distribution

An Holarctic genus of mainly flower-living, facultative, predatory species, with a few species living at ground level as obligate mite predators.

Click to see a list of the 112 species.

References

Haliday AH (1836) An epitome of the British genera in the Order Thysanoptera with indications of a few of the species. Entomological Magazine 3: 439–451.

Priesner H (1926) Die Thysanopteren Europas. Abteilung I-II. Wien : F. Wagner Verlag. pp. 1–342.

Melis A (1932) Tisanotteri Italiani. Genys Aeolothrips. Redia 20: 144-187.

Lacassa Plasencia (1983) Nuevos Tisanoptero de la Peninsula Iberica. Aeolothrips bournieri sp.n. (Aeolothripidae). Eos 59: 67-75.

Bhatti JS (1988) The spermatheca as a useful character for species differentiation in Coleothrips Haliday (Insecta: Terebrantia: Aeolothripidae). Zoology (Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology) 1: 111–116.

Bhatti JS (1999) Notes on Thysanoptera. Thrips 1: 6–9.

zur Strassen R (2003) Die terebranten Thysanopteren Europas und des Mittelmeer-Gebietes. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 74: 1–271.

Species

A Aeolothrips afghanus Jenser, 1984 Aeolothrips albicinctus Haliday, 1836 Aeolothrips albithorax Pelikan, 1964 Aeolothrips andalusiacus zur Strassen, 1973 Aeolothrips angustus Melis, 1933 Aeolothrips arnebiae Priesner, 1948 Aeolothrips asirensis zur Strassen, 1979 Aeolothrips astutus Priesner, 1926 Aeolothrips aureus Moulton, 1931 Aeolothrips auricestus Treherne, 1919 B Aeolothrips balati Pelikan, 1958 Aeolothrips bicolor Hinds, 1902 Aeolothrips bhattii Alavi, Modarres Awal, Fekrat, Minaei & Manzari, 2015 Aeolothrips bournieri Lacasa Plasencia, 1983 Aeolothrips brevicauda Hood, 1935 Aeolothrips brevicornis Bagnall, 1915 Aeolothrips brunneipictus Bailey, 1951 C Aeolothrips carpobrotus Hartwig, 1952 Aeolothrips citricinctus Bagnall, 1933 Aeolothrips clarus Bailey, 1951 Aeolothrips collaris Priesner, 1919 Aeolothrips crassus Hood, 1912 Aeolothrips crucifer Hood, 1935 † Aeolothrips cucullatus Schlechtendal, 1887 Aeolothrips cursor Priesner, 1939 D Aeolothrips deserticola Priesner, 1929 Aeolothrips distinctus Bhatti, 1971 Aeolothrips duvali Moulton, 1927 E Aeolothrips eremicola Priesner, 1938 Aeolothrips ericae Bagnall, 1920 Aeolothrips euphorbiae Mirab-balou, 2019 † Aeolothrips extinctus Priesner & Quievreux, 1936 F Aeolothrips fallax zur Strassen, 1977 Aeolothrips fasciatipennis Blanchard, 1851 Aeolothrips fasciatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Aeolothrips faurei Hood, 1935 Aeolothrips flaviventer Pelikan, 1983 Aeolothrips fukushimensis Masumoto & Okajima, 2019 Aeolothrips fuscus Watson, 1931 G Aeolothrips gloriosus Bagnall, 1914 Aeolothrips guitiani Berzosa & Maroto, 1990 Aeolothrips gundeliae Alavi, Modarres Awal, Fekrat, Minaei & Manzari, 2016 H Aeolothrips hartleyi Moulton, 1927 Aeolothrips heinzi zur Strassen, 1990 Aeolothrips hesperus Bailey, 1951 I Aeolothrips indicus Bhatti, 1964 Aeolothrips insularis Priesner, 1933 Aeolothrips intactus Pelikan, 1963 Aeolothrips intermedius Bagnall, 1934 Aeolothrips interruptus Bailey, 1951 Aeolothrips iranicus Minaei, 2015 J Aeolothrips jajarmi Alavi & Minaei, 2019 † Aeolothrips jarzembowskii Shmakov, 2014) K Aeolothrips kurosawai Bhatti, 1971 Aeolothrips kuwanaii Moulton, 1907

L Aeolothrips laurencei Alavi, Modarres Awal, Fekrat, Minaei & Manzari, 2015 Aeolothrips linarius Priesner, 1948 † Aeolothrips longipes (Schlechtendal, 1887) Aeolothrips luteolus Kurosawa, 1939 M Aeolothrips major Bailey, 1951 Aeolothrips manteli Titschack, 1962 Aeolothrips masflavus Priesner, 1933 Aeolothrips melaleucus Haliday, 1852 Aeolothrips melisi Priesner, 1936 Aeolothrips metacrucifer Bailey, 1951 Aeolothrips mexicanus Priesner, 1924 Aeolothrips modestus zur Strassen, 1965 Aeolothrips mongolicus Pelikan, 1985 Aeolothrips montanus Bailey, 1951 Aeolothrips montivagus Priesner, 1948 Aeolothrips moundi Kulshrestha & Vijay Veer, 1984 N Aeolothrips naderii Minaei & Mound, 2019 Aeolothrips nasturtii Jones, 1912 Aeolothrips neglectus Melis, 1933 Aeolothrips nigricornis Ananthakrishnan, 1968 Aeolothrips nitidus Moulton, 1946 Aeolothrips novus Bhatti, 1970 O Aeolothrips obesus Melis, 1933 Aeolothrips occidentalis Bailey, 1951 Aeolothrips oregonus Hood, 1935 Aeolothrips oteri Alavi & Minaei, 2019 P Aeolothrips pallidicornis Hood, 1938 Aeolothrips pelikani Titschack, 1964 Aeolothrips persiae Alavi & Minaei, 2018 Aeolothrips priesneri Knechtel, 1923 Aeolothrips propinquus Bagnall, 1924 Aeolothrips pulcher Oettingen, 1943 Aeolothrips pyrenaicus Bagnall, 1934 Q Aeolothrips quercicola Bournier, 1971 S Aeolothrips saharae zur Strassen, 1968 Aeolothrips scabiosatibia Moulton, 1930 Aeolothrips scitus zur Strassen, 1965 Aeolothrips setosus Masumoto & Okajima, 2019 Aeolothrips sobrinus zur Strassen, 1979 Aeolothrips surcalifornianus Johansen, 1989 T Aeolothrips tatari Alavi & Minaei, 2018 Aeolothrips tauricus Derbeneva, 1959 Aeolothrips tenuicornis Bagnall, 1926 Aeolothrips terrestris Bailey, 1951 V Aeolothrips variicornis Bagnall, 1932 Aeolothrips vehemens Hood, 1927 Aeolothrips verbasci Knechtel, 1955 Aeolothrips versicolor Uzel, 1895 Aeolothrips vittatus Haliday, 1836 Aeolothrips vittipennis Hood, 1912 W Aeolothrips wetmorei Hood, 1927 Aeolothrips wittmeri Priesner, 1935 X Aeolothrips xinjiangensis Han, 1987 Aeolothrips xizangensis Han, 1986 Y Aeolothrips yunnanensis Han, 1986 Z Aeolothrips zurstrasseni Minaei, 2013