Franklinothrips tenuicornis

Nomenclatural details

Franklinothrips tenuicornis Hood, 1915: 164.

Mitothrips petulans Bagnall, 1915: 496.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Moro island, Panama (F. tenuicornis) and Sangre Grande, Trinidad (M. petulans).

References

Hood JD (1915) On some American Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera). Entomological News 26: 162–166.

Bagnall RS (1915) On a collection of Thysanoptera from the West Indies, with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Linnean Society Zoology 32: 495–507.

Mound LA & Reynaud P (2005) Franklinothrips; a pantropical Thysanoptera genus of ant-mimicking obligate predators (Aeolothripidae). Zootaxa 864: 1-16.

Type information

Holotype female (F. tenuicornis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype male (M. petulans), The Natural History Museum, London.