Copidothrips

Genus information

Copidothrips Hood, 1954: 188. Type species Copidothrips formosus Hood, 1954, by monotypy, synonym of Heliothrips (Parthenothrips) octarticulata Schmutz, 1913.

Mesostenothrips Stannard & Mitri, 1962: 210. Type species Mesostenothrips kraussi Stannard & Mitri 1962, by monotypy. Synonymised by Bhatti, 1967: 9.

Biology and Distribution

One species from Oriental region, also recorded from Caribbean and Tahiti.

References

Hood JD (1954) Three new heliothripine Thysanoptera from Formosa. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 56: 188–193.

Stannard LJ & Mitri TJ (1962) Preliminary studies on the Tryphactothrips complex in which Anisopilothrips, Mesostenothrips and Elixothrips are erected as new genera (Thripidae: Heliothripinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 88: 183–224.

Bhatti JS (1967) Thysanoptera nova Indica. 24 pp. Published by the author, Delhi.

Goldarazena A, Michel B & Jacq F (2021) Copidothrips octarticulatus recorded from Tahiti, with first description of the male and larvae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae, Panchaetothripinae). Zootaxa 4949(3): 591–594.

Species

Copidothrips octarticulatus (Schmutz, 1913)