Gynaikothrips ficorum
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Nomenclatural details
Phloeothrips ficorum Marchal, 1908: 252.
Leptothrips flavicornis Bagnall, 1909: 529. Synonymised by Mound 1968: 107.
Liothrips bakeri Crawford DL, 1910: 161.
Leptothrips reticulatus Karny, 1912: 22.
Gynaikothrips flavus Ishida, 1931: 40.
Gynaikothrips edentatus Priesner, 1939: 482. Synonymised by Mound & Tree 2021: 541.
Haplothrips blesai Plata, 1973: 165.
Biology and Distribution
Described from Algeria (P. ficorum), Madeira (L. flavicornis, L. reticulatus), Cuba (L. bakeri), Taiwan (G. flavus), Indonesia (G. edentatus) and Tenerife (H. blesai). Recorded from Japan on Ficus microcarpa (Okajima, 2006).
Biology and Distribution
Described from Sumatra, Indonesia, from Ficus leaf-gall.
References
Type information
Holotype male, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. [Probably small individual of ficorum]
References
Marchal P (1908) Sur une nouvelle espece de Thrips nuisible aux Ficus on Algerie. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique Paris 1908: (251-253).
Bagnall RS (1909) On some new and little known exotic Thysanoptera. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland 3: 524–540.
Crawford DL (1910) Thysanoptera of Mexico and the south II. Pomona College Journal of Entomology 2: 153–170.
Karny H (1912) Ueber einige afrikanische Thysanopteren. Fauna Exotica (6) 2: 22–24.
Ishida M (1931) Fauna of the Thysanoptera of Japan. Insecta matsumurana 7 (1): 32–42.
Priesner H (1939) Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Gynaikothrips Zimm. (Thysanoptera). Mitteilungen der Münchner entomologisches Gesellschaft 29: 475–487.
Plata P (1972) Descripcion de un nuevo Haplothrips (Ins. Thysanoptera) de la lsla de Tenerife. Vieraea 2(2): 164-173.
Mound LA, Wang C-L & Okajima S (1996) Observations in Taiwan on the identity of the Cuban laurel thrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 103: 185–190.
Okajima S (2006) The Insects of Japan. Volume 2. The suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Fukuoka : Touka Shobo Co. Ltd. pp. 1–720.
Mound LA & Tree DT (2021) Taxonomic problems with Gynaikothrips and related genera (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae): the ficorum/uzeli complex and taxa endemic to Australia. Zootaxa 5023 (4): 537–554.
Type information
Syntype (L. flavicornis), The Natural History Museum, London.
Holotype (G. flavus), Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
Holotype male (G. edentatus), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.
