Scirtothrips aurantii

Nomenclatural details

Scirtothrips aurantii Faure, 1929: 3.

Scirtothrips acaciae Moulton, 1930: 200. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer, 1981: 473.

Biology and Distribution

Described from South Africa (S. aurantii) and Ghana from Acacia sieberiana (S. acaciae). Recorded from Australia.

References

Faure JC (1929) The South African citrus thrips and five other new species of Scirtothrips Shull. Transvaal University College Bulletin (Pretoria) 18: 1–18.

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

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1981) Identification, distribution and host-plants of the pest species of Scirtothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Bulletin of entomological Research 71: 467–479.

Morris DC & Mound LA (2004) Molecular relationships between populations of South African citrus thrips (Scirtothrips aurantii Faure) in South Africa and Queensland, Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 353–358.

Mound LA & Stiller M (2011) Species of the genus Scirtothrips from Africa (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 2786: 51–61.

Type information

Paratype males & females in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. Holotype female of acaciae in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.