Caliothrips phaseoli

Nomenclatural details

Heliothrips phaseoli Hood, 1912: 113.

Heliothrips gossypii Moulton, 1927: 32.

Heliothrips braziliensis Morgan, 1929: 7. Synonymised by Wilson, 1975: 92.

Hercothrips ipomoeae Moulton, 1932: 481.

Caliothrips flavescentis De Santis, 1967: 3. Synonymised by Wilson, 1975: 92.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Brownsville, Texas USA from bean leaves (H. phaseoli), California USA from Bromus carniatus (H. gossypii) and Brazil from Ageratum conyzoides and Lycopersicum sculentum (H. braziliensis, H. ipomoeae, C. flavescentis). Also collected from Phaseolus vulgaris, cotton, grass and Gossypium hirsutum. Widely spread in the Caribbean and South America.

References

Hood JD (1912) A new genus and three new species of North American Thysanoptera. Psyche 19: 113–118.

Moulton D (1927) Four new Californian Thysanoptera with notes on two other species. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 4: 30–35.

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.

Moulton D (1932) The Thysanoptera of South America I. Revista de Entomologia 2: 451–484.

de Santis L (1967) Dos nuevas especies de Tisanópteros del Brasil. Notas Comisión de Investigación Científica, Provincia de Buenos Aires (6) 4: 3–6.

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

Type information

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

Holotype female (H. gossypii), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Holotype female (H. ipomoeae), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Holotype female (C. flavescentis), La Plata Museum.

Lectotype female (H. braziliensis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.