Thrips acaciae

Nomenclatural details

Thrips acaciae Trybom, 1910: 161.

Thrips kikuyuensis Trybom, 1912: 6. Synonymised by Mound, 2010: 5.

Thrips hirtiventris Hood, 1932: 126. Synonymised by Faure, 1964.

Thrips spadix Hood, 1932: 131. Synonymised by Mound, 2010: 5.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Namibia (T. acaciae), Kenya (T. kikuyuensis), Tanzania (T. hirtiventris) and Cameroon (T. spadix).

References

Trybom F (1908) Physapoda. pp 1–20 in Sjöstedt Physapoda, in Sjöstedt, Wissentschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru, und dem umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 XVI.

Trybom F (1912) Physapoden gesammelt von der Schwedischen expedition nach dem Brittischen Ostafrika. Arkiv för Zoologi 7 (22): 1–12.

Hood JD (1932) New species of the genus Thrips from Central Africa and Egypt. Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d'Egypte 1932: 115–140.

Mound LA (2010) Species of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from the Afro-tropical Region. Zootaxa 2423: 1–24.

Type information

Syntypes of acaciae in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Holotype (T. hirtiventris), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype (T. spadix), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Syntype (T. kikuyuensis), Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, akso in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.