Mycterothrips albus

Nomenclatural details

Euthrips albus Moulton, 1911: 39.

Euthrips costalis Jones, 1912: 13.

Rhopalandrothrips corni Moulton, 1927: 34. Synonym (O'Neill, 1972.)

Taeniothrips albipennis Moulton, 1929: 129. Synonym (O'Neill, 1972.)

Taeniothrips albidus Stannard, 1968: 360. Synonym (O'Neill, 1972.)

Biology and Distribution

Described from California USA (E. albus, E. costalis, R. corni, T. albipennis) and Illinois USA (T. albidus). Associated with peach.

References

Moulton D (1911) Synopsis, catalogue and bibliography of North American Thysanoptera, with descriptions of new species. Technical series, USDA Bureau of Entomology 21: 1–56.

Jones PR (1912) Some new California and Georgia Thysanoptera. Technical series, USDA Bureau of Entomology 23: 1–24.

Moulton D (1927) Four new Californian Thysanoptera with notes on two other species. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 4: 30–35.

Moulton D (1929) New California Thysanoptera. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 5: 125–136.

Stannard LJ (1968) The Thrips, or Thysanoptera, of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 29: 213–552.

O'Neill, K. (1972) Mycterothrips Trybom, a review of the North American species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of America 74(3) 275–282.

Masumoto M & Okajima S (2006) A revision of and key to the world species of Mycterothrips Trybom (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 1261: 1–90.

Type information

Holotype female (E. albus), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Holotype female (R. corni), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; paratype in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Holotype female (T. albipennis), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Holotype (T. albidus), Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign.