Ethirothrips brevis

Nomenclatural details

Adiaphorothrips brevis Bagnall, 1921: 276.

Dichaetothrips claripennis Moulton, 1934: 503. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer, 1983: 57.

Gastrothrips trinidadensis Hood, 1935: 168. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer, 1983: 57.

Nesothrips indicus Ananthakrishnan, 1968: 967. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer, 1983: 57.

Nesothrips diversus Ananthakrishnan, 1972: 434. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer, 1983: 57.

Biology and Distribution

Described from the Seychelles (A. brevis), India (N. indicus, N. diversus), Hawaii (D. claripennis) and Trinidad (G. trinidadensis).

References

Bagnall RS (1921) On Thysanoptera from the Seychelles Islands and Rodrigues. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)7: 257–293.

Moulton D (1934) New Thysanoptera of the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the Hawaiian entomological Society 8: 499–503.

Hood JD (1935) Some new or little known Thysanoptera of the family Phlaeothripidae. Revista de Entomologia 5: 159–199.

Ananthakrishnan TN (1968) Two new species of Nesothrips wiith further remarks on Nesothrips robustus (Thysanoptera; Tubulifera). Annals de la Societe entomologique de France 4: 967–973.

Ananthakrishnan TN (1972) Mycophagous Thysanoptera - IV. Oriental Insects 6: 425–437.

Mound LA (1974) The Nesothrips complex of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 31: 109–188.

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1983) The generic and tribal classification of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 46: 1-174.

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

Okajima S (2006) The Insects of Japan. Volume 2. The suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Fukuoka: Touka Shobo Co Ltd. pp. 1–720.

Okajima S & Masumoto M (2023) Six genera of the subtribe Macrothripina from Southeast Asia to Taiwan (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae, Idolothripinae). Zootaxa 5291 (1): 001–074.

Type information

Holotype male (A. brevis), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype female (D. claripennis), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Paratype (G. trinidadensis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype female (N. diversus), Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi.

Syntypes (N. indicus), Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi; also in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.