Psectrothrips longiceps

Nomenclatural details

Pseudothrips longiceps Hood, 1954: 211.

Quirosiella sotoi Retana, 2000: 55.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Serra da Cantareira, Franco da Rocha, Sao Paulo, Brazil from Yucca (P. longiceps) and Estacion Biologica Las Alturas, Costa Rica from Rasieza spicata (Q. sotoi). Also collected from Senecio megaphyllum.

References

Hood (1954) Brasilian Thysanoptera V. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 67: 195-214.

Palmer JM & Mound LA (1985) New World Thripidae (Thysanoptera) with nine-segmented antennae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 84: 181–194.

Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–488.

Retana-Salazar AP (2000) Revision y filogenia del grupo generico Pseudothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Brenesia 54: 51–62.

Type information

Holotype female (P. longiceps), United States National Museum.

Holotype female (Q. sotoi), University of Costa Rica, San Jose; paratype males & females in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. l