Aesthetothrips tucuche

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Nomenclatural details

Aesthetothrips tucuche Hood, 1954: 210.

Biology and Distribution

Described from El Tucuche, Trinidad on dead banana leaves. Presumably lives in leaf-litter.

References

Hood JD (1954) Three new Thysanoptera from Trinidad and British Guiana. Proceedings of the Royal entomological Society of London B 23: 205-212.

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, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.