Echinothrips caribeanus

Echinothrips caribeanus head & thorax [image by José Francisco García Ochaeta. Guatemala, Petén, Las Cruces]

Nomenclatural details

Echinothrips caribeanus Hood, 1955: 135.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Guadeloupe. Recorded from Costa Rica from Cissampelos tropaeolifolia and Ipomoea sp. leaves and from Barro Colorado island, Panama.

References

Hood JD (1955) New American terebrantian Thysanoptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society [1954] 62: 129–138.

Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–488.

Type information

Holotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.