Anaphothrips dubius

Nomenclatural details

Heterothrips dubius Girault, 1926: 2.

Anaphothrips quinqueguttatus Girault, 1927: 2.

Anaphothrips regalis Girault, 1928: 2.

Hemianaphothrips tersus Morison, 1930: 9.

Othinanaphothrips spilleri Crawford JC, 1943: 152.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Queensland, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand from tobacco (O. spilleri). Widely spread in Australia; apparently polyphagous, causing damage to leaves of Xerochrysum (Asteraceae), also Pandorea (Bignoniaceae) and Urtica (Urticaceaae) - see Mound & Masumoto (2009).

References

Girault AA (1926) New pests from Australia III. Published privately, Brisbane 2 pp.

Girault AA (1927) Some new wild animals from Queensland. Published privately Brisbane pp. 1–3.

Girault AA (1928) A prodigeous discourse on wild animals. Published privately, Brisbane pp. 1–3.

Morison, GD (1930) On a collection of Thysanoptera from South Australia. Bulletin of Entomological Research 21, 9–14.

Crawford JC (1943) A new genus and species of Thysanoptera from New Zealand (Family Thripidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 45: 151–153.

Pitkin BR (1978) A revision of the Australian species of Anaphothrips Uzel (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 26: 349–371.

Mound LA & Masumoto M (2009) Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species. Zootaxa 2042: 1-76. [1]

Type information

Holotype female (O. spilleri), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype female (H. tersus), The Natural History Museum, London.

Lectotype female (A. quinqueguttatus), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Syntype female (A. regalis), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.