Leptothrips mali

Nomenclatural details

Phloeothrips mali Fitch, 1855: 806.

Cryptothrips aspersus Hinds, 1902: 205. Synonym in Hood, 1914: 162.

Cryptothrips californicus Daniel, 1904: 293. Synonym in Hood, 1914: 162.

Liothrips mcconelli Crawford DL, 1910: 163. Synonym in Hood, 1914: 162.

Cryptothrips adirondacks Watson, 1921: 83. Synonym in Hood, 1927: 112.

Leptothrips gurdus Johansen, 1987: 45. Synonymised by Mound & O'Donnell, 2017: 310.

Leptothrips septemtrionalis Johansen, 1987: 55. Synonymised by Mound & O'Donnell, 2017: 310.

Leptothrips maliaffinis Johansen, 1987: 61. Synonymised by Mound & O'Donnell, 2017: 310.

Biology and Distribution

Described from New York USA. Widespread in North America. Predatory as larvae and adults on small arthropods (Hoddle, Mound & Paris, 2012); L. septemtrionalis from Maryland; L. maliaffinis from Virginia, USA.

References

Fitch A (1855) The apple thrips, Phloeothrips mali. Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society 14: 806–808.

Hinds WE (1902) Contribution to a monograph of the insects of the order Thysanoptera inhabiting North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 26: 79–242.

Daniel SM (1904) New California Thysanoptera. Entomological News 15: 293–297.

Crawford DL (1910) Thysanoptera of Mexico and the south II. Pomona College Journal of Entomology 2: 153–170.

Hood JD (1914) Studies in Tubuliferous Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 27: 151-172.

Watson JR (1921) New Thysanoptera from New York. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 16: 78–86.

Hood JD (1927) Nineteen synonyms in the North American Thysanoptera. Entomological News 38: 112-113

Hoddle MS, Mound LA & Paris D (2012) Thrips of california [1]

Johansen RM (1987) El genero Leptothrips Hood, 1909 (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) en el continente Americano: su sistematica, filogenia, biogeografia, bilogia, conducta y ecologia. Monografias del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Mexico 3: 1–246.

Mound LA & O’Donnell, C.A (2017) Predation, phytophagy and character state confusion among North American species of the genus Leptothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae). Zootaxa 4294 (3): 301-315.

Type information

Syntype, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville;

Holotypes (L. gurdus; L. septemtrionalis; L. maliaffinis), The Natural History Museum, London.