Caliothrips sudanensis

Nomenclatural details

Hercothrips sudanensis Bagnall & Cameron, 1932: 415.

Caliothrips deserticola Priesner, 1965: 226.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Wad Medani, Sudan from cotton (H. sudanensis) and Egypt (C. deserticola).

References

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.

Priesner H (1965) A monograph of the Thysanoptera of the Egyptian deserts. Publications de la Institut Desert Egypte 13: 1–549.

Type information

Holotype female (C. deserticola), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Syntypes (H. sudanensis), The Natural History Museum, London.