Mycterothrips laticauda

Nomenclatural details

Mycterothrips laticauda Trybom, 1910: 158.

Mycterothrips flavens Moulton, 1930: 206.

Biology and Distribution

Described from South Africa (M. flavicauda) and Ghana from Acacia sieberiana (M. flavens). Recorded from Chad on cotton.

References

Trybom F (1910) Physapoda. pp. 147–174 in Schultze Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrica (1903-1905) Jena: Denkschriften der Medizinisch-naturwissenschaflichen Gesellschaft zu Jena Vol 16.

Moulton D (1930) Thysanoptera from Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 5: 194–207.

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 (M. flavens), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Lectotype (M. laticauda), Humboldt University Museum, Berlin.