Bathrips melanicornis

Bathrips melanicornis Female [L A Mound]

Bathrips melanicornis Female, pronotum [L A Mound]

Bathrips melanicornis Female, mesonotum and metanotum [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Taeniothrips melanicornis Shumsher, 1946: 179.

Taeniothrips ipomoeae Zhang, 1981: 324. Synonymised by Mirab-balou, Yang & Tong, 2012: 87.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Mandalay, Myanmar (T. melanicornis) and from Guangdong, China (T. ipomoeae) Recorded from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, East Timor, Australia Iran and Japan.

References

Shumsher S (1946) Studies on the systematics of Indian Terebrantia. Indian Journal of Entomology 7: 147–188.

Bhatti JS (1990) Catalogue of insects of the Order Tere­brantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology) (4) 2: 205–352

Zhang Weiqiu (1981) New species of Taeniothrips from China (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 6 (3): 324–327.

Mirab-Balou M, Yang SL & Tong XL (2012) Bathrips in China (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with a new record and new synonym. Zootaxa 3571: 87-88.

Mirab-balou M. (2020). Bathrips melanicornis (Shumsher) (Thysanoptera, Thripidae): first records of the genus and species from Iran. Entomological Review 100 (7): 1000–1004.

Masumoto M & Okajima S (2021) Contributions to the knowledge of Thysanoptera (Insecta) from Japan. Zootaxa 4970 (3): 593–596.

Type information

Holotype (T. ipomoeae), Southern China Agricultural University, Guangzhou.