Platythrips tunicatus

Nomenclatural details

Thrips tunicata Haliday, 1852: 1115.

Thrips asperulae Jordan, 1888: 568.

Platythrips obscura Reuter, 1899: 61.

Bolacothrips nigricornis Bagnall, 1913: 239.

Platythrips macroptera Priesner, 1920: 57.

Biology and Distribution

Described from England (T. tunicata, B. nigricornis), Gottingen, Germany from Asperula odorata (T. asperulae), Finland (P. obscura) and Austria (P. macroptera).

References

Haliday AH (1852) Order III Physapoda. pp. 1094–1118 in Walker F List of the Homopterous insects in the British Museum Part IV. London: British Museum.

Jordan (1888) Anatomie und biologic der Physapoda. Zeitschrift fiir Wissenscheaftliche Zoologie 47: 541-620.

Reuter OM (1899) Thysanoptera Fennica. Acta Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 17(2): 1-67.

Bagnall RS (1913) Further notes on new and rare British Thysanoptera (Terebrantia) with descriptions of new species. Journal of economic Biology 8: 231–240.

Priesner H (1920) Beitrag sur Kenntnis der Thysanopteren Oberösterreichs. Jahresberichte Musem Francisco Carolinus 78: 50–63.

Type information

Holotype male (B. nigricornis), The Natural History Museum, London.