Ceratothripoides claratris

Nomenclatural details

Taeniothrips claratris Shumsher, 1946: 178.

Mycterothrips moultoni Seshadri & Ananthakrishnan, 1954: 213.

Ceratothrips reticulatus Reyes, 1994: 183.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Taguig, Rizal, Luzon, Philippines on Datura sp. (C. reticulatus) and India (T. claratris, M. moultoni).

References

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

Seshadri A & Ananathakrishnan TN (1954) Some new Indian Thysanoptera - 1. Indian Journal of Entomology 16: 210–226.

Reyes C.P. (1994) Thysanoptera (Hexapoda) of the Philippine Islands. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 42: 107–507.

Bhatti JS (2003) The genera Tenothrips and Ewartithrips (Terebrantia: Thripidae) and pigmented facets of eye in some Terebrantia. Thysanoptera 2003: 1–10.

Type information

Holotype female (C. reticulatus), Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra; female paratype in BMNH, London.

Holotype female (M. moultoni), Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.