Caliothrips insularis

Nomenclatural details

Hercothrips insularis Hood, 1928: 234.

Heliothrips bruneri Morgan, 1929: 8.

Biology and Distribution

Described from St Croix, Virgin islands on grass (H. insularis) and Cuba on sugar cane (H. bruneri); recorded from southern China.

References

Hood JD (1928) New neotropical Thysanoptera collected by C.B.Williams II. Psyche 34: 230–246.

Morgan AC (1929) A new genus and five new species of Thysanoptera foreign to the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 31: 1–9.

Wang ZH, Mound L, Mao RQ & Tong XL (2022) Two new synonyms among Panchaetothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with three species newly recorded from China. Zootaxa 5190 (2), 275-285.

Type information

Holotype female (H. insularis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Syntype (H. bruneri), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.