Synaptothrips
Genus information
Synaptothrips Trybom, 1910: 155. Type species Synaptothrips crassicornis Trybom, 1910, by monotypy.
Homothrips Bagnall, 1915: 588. Type species Homothrips distinctus Bagnall, 1915, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound, 1968: 87.
Limphysothrips Bagnall, 1919: 272. Type species Limphysothrips paradoxus Bagnall, 1919, by monotypy. Synonymised by Mound, 1968: 87.
Biology and Distribution
From South Africa, in flowers.
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.
Bagnall RS (1915) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera. VI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)15: 588–597.
Bagnall RS (1919) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera X. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)4: 253–277.
Mound LA (1968) New synonymy in the South African genus Synaptothrips Trybom (Thysanoptera) with a key to the species. Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 31: 87-95.
Species
Synaptothrips africanus (Moulton, 1936)
Synaptothrips aureus (Moulton, 1936)
Synaptothrips ciliatus Trybom, 1910
Synaptothrips crassicornis Trybom, 1910
Synaptothrips distinctus (Bagnall, 1915)
Synaptothrips geyeri (Faure, 1942)
Synaptothrips gezinae (Faure, 1938)
Synaptothrips incertus (Moulton, 1936)
Synaptothrips paradoxus (Bagnall, 1919)
Synaptothrips psoraleae (Jacot-Guillarmod, 1937)
Synaptothrips rhynchosiae (Faure, 1938)
