Gastrothrips acuticornis

Nomenclatural details

Cryptothrips acuticornis Hood, 1925: 65.

Cryptothrips cybele Girault, 1927: 1. Synonymised by Mound, 1974: 53.

Gastrothrips noumeae Bianchi, 1945: 251. Synonymised by Mound, 1974: 53.

Hoplothrips paumalui Moulton, 1937: 412.

Biology and Distribution

Described from the West Indies (St Croix) (C. acuticornis), Queensland, Australia (C. cybele), Hawaii USA from Emilia flammea (H. paumalui) and New Caledonia (G. noumeae).

References

Hood JD (1925) New neotropical Thysanoptera collected by C.B. Williams. Psyche 32: 48–69.

Girault AA (1927) Thysanoptera Nova Australiensis, II. Published privately, Brisbane. pp. 1–2.

Bianchi FA (1945) Introduction to the Thysanoptera of New Caledonia. Proceedings of the Hawaiian entomological Society 12: 249–278.

Moulton D (1937) Further notes on Hawaiian thrips with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian entomological Society 9: 409–414.

Mound LA (1974) Spore-feeding Thrips (Phlaeothripidae) from Leaf Litter and Dead Wood in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology. Supplement 27: 1-106.

Type information

Holotype female (C. acuticornis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype male (C. cybele), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Holotype female (G. noumeae), Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu.

Holotype female (H. paumalui), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.