Allothrips acaciae

Nomenclatural details

Allothrips acaciae Faure 1945: 152.

Allothrips pillichellus acaciae (Faure); Mound, 1972: 34

Biology and Distribution

Described from Saltpan, Pretoria district, South Africa from native Acacia species, this species is similar to biminianus described from the Bahamas (Mound (1972).

References

Faure JC (1945) Two new species of Allothrips (Thysanoptera) from South Africa. Proceedings of the entomological Society of London B 14: 150–154.

Mound LA (1972) Polytypic species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genus Allothrips Hood (Phlaeothripidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11: 23-36.

Type information

Holotype female, South African National Insect Collection, Pretoria; paratypes of both sexes in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.