Liothrips (Zopyrothrips) vitivorus

Nomenclatural details

Gynaikothrips claripennis Karny - misidentification in Moulton, 1928: 308.

Smerinthothrips vitivorus Priesner, 1935: 364. Replacement name for claripennis Moulton, 1928 not claripennis Karny, 1916

Liothrips (Zopyrothrips) vitivorus (Priesner) Priesner, 1968: 260.

Described from Daibu, Taiwan on Vitis sp (S. vitivorus). G. claripennis also from Taiwan.

Moulton D (1928) New Thysanoptera from Formosa. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 18: 287–328.

Priesner H (1935) New or little-known oriental Thysanoptera. Philippine Journal of Science 57: 351–375.

Priesner H (1968) On the genera allied to Liothrips of the Oriental fauna II (Insecta-Thysanoptera). Treubia 27: 175–285.

Syntypes male and female in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.