Arorathrips texanus

Nomenclatural details

Chirothrips texanus Andre, 1939: 200.

Chirothrips auriventris Hood, 1939: 469.

Chirothrips spinosus Moulton, 1946: 49. Synonymised by Nakahara & Foottit, 2012: 9.

Chirothrips pubescens Hood, 1949: 20.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Denison, Texas USA (C. texanus), Florida USA (C. auriventris), Brazil (C. pubescens) and Haiti (C. spinosus).

References

Hood JD (1939) Notes on Chirothrips, with descriptions of two new species (Thysanoptera). Revista de Entomologia 10: 461–471.

Andre F (1939) A synopsis of the American species of Chirothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 41: 192–204.

Hood JD (1949) Brasilian Thysanoptera I. Revista de Entomologia 20: 3–88.

zur Strassen R (1960) Key to and catalogue of the known species of Chirothrips Haliday, 1836 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 23: 144–176.

Nakahara S & Foottit RG (2012) Review of Chirothrips and related genera (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the Americas, with descriptions of one new genus and four new species. Zootaxa 3251: 1–29.

Type information

Holotype (C. texanus), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype (C. spinosus), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; female paratypes in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.