Gigantothrips elegans

Nomenclatural details

Gigantothrips elegans Zimmermann, 1900: 18.

Panurothrips gracilis Bagnall, 1908: 208.

Gigantothrips crawfordi Hood, 1919: 71.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Java, Indonesia (G. elegans), Thailand (P. gracilis) and Philippines (G. crawfordi). Recorded from India (Sen, Pramanik & Sengupta, 1988).

References

Zimmermann, A (1900) Über einige javanische Thysanopteren. Bulletin de l’Insitut Botanique de Buitenzorg Java 7: 6–19.

Bagnall RS (1908) On some new genera and species of Thysanoptera. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland 3: 183–217.

Hood JD (1919) On some new Idolothripidae (Thysanoptera). Insecutor inscitiae menstruus 7: 66–74.

Mound LA (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11: 1–181.

Sen S, Pramanik NK & Sengupta CK (1988) Thysanoptera fauna of North Eastern India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous publication, Occasional paper no. 100: 1-123.

Type information

Syntypes (G. elegans), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Holotype female (P. gracilis), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype (G. crawfordi), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.