Caliothrips impurus

Nomenclatural details

Heliothrips impurus Priesner, 1927: 61.

Hercothrips fumipennis Bagnall & Cameron, 1932: 412.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Nigeria (H. impurus) and Sudan on cotton (H. fumipennis). Recorded from India on grass. Widespread in Central Africa on grasses, ground nuts, Tephrosia uniflora, onion, cotton, berseem, Heliotrophium sp., lucerne, garden beans and legumes.

References

Priesner H (1927) Neue und wenig bekannte Thysanopteren, gesammelt in Westafrika von Prof. Dr. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorie di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici 21: 61–83.

Bagnall RS & Cameron WPL (1932) Descriptions of two species of Hercothrips injurious to cotton in the British Sudan, and of an allied species on grass. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10: 412–419.

Mound LA (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11: 1–181.

Wilson TH (1975) A monograph of the subfamily Panchaetothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 23: 1–354.

Type information

Lectotype female (H. impurus), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Syntype females (H. fumipennis), The Natural History Museum, London.