Hydatothrips adolfifriderici
Nomenclatural details
Hydatothrips adolfifriderici Karny, 1913: 218.
Sericothrips occipitalis Hood, 1917: 32. Synonym in Bhatti, 1973: 414.
Sericothrips bedfordi Priesner, 1965: 242.
Biology and Distribution
Described from Rwanda (H. adolfifriderici), Ibadan, Nigeria from Desmodium lasiocarpum (S. occipitalis) and Khartoum, Sudan from Hibiscus sabdariffa and ?Cajanus indicus (S. bedfordi).
References
Karny H (1913) Thysanoptera. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907-1908 4: 281–282.
Hood JD (1917) A new Sericothrips (Thysanoptera) from Africa. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 12: 32–34.
Priesner H (1965) A monograph of the Thysanoptera of the Egyptian deserts. Publications de la Institut Desert Egypte 13: 1–549.
Bhatti JS (1973) A preliminary revision of Sericothrips Haliday, sensu lat., and related genera, with a revised concept of the tribe Sericothripini. Oriental Insects 7: 403-449.
Pitkin BR (1978) Lectotype designations of certain species of thrips described by J.D.Hood and notes on his collection (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 80: 264–295.
Type information
Holotype (H. adolfifriedrici), Humboldt University Museum, Berlin.
Lectotype female (S. occipitalis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
