Thrips florum

Thrips florum Female, mesonotum and metanotum [L A Mound]

Thrips florum Female, fore wing clavus [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Thrips florum Schmutz, 1913: 1003.

Thrips parva Schmutz, 1913: 1004. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.

Thrips magnipes Schmutz, 1913: 1006. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.

Thrips rhodamniae Schmutz, 1913: 1008. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.

Thrips pallida Schmutz, 1913: 1015. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.

Thrips peradenyae Schmutz, 1913: 1015. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.

Thrips darci Girault, 1930: 1. Synonymised by Mound & Houston 1987: 9.

Thrips exilicornis Hood, 1932: 129. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.

Thrips florum var. dunbariae Priesner, 1934: 261. Synonymy in Nakahara, 1985: 869.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Sri Lanka (T. florum, T. rhodamniae, T. peradenyae, T. parva, T. pallida T. magnipes), Nigeria (T. exilicornis), Java, Indonesia (T. dunbariae) and Australia (T. darci). Also collected from Bahamas, Dominican republic and taken in quarantine in Florida USA.

References

Schmutz K (1913) Zur Kenntnis der Thysanopterenfauna von Ceylon. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 122 (7): 991–1089 + 6 plates.

Girault AA (1930) New pests from Australia, VIII. Published privately, Brisbane pp. 1–5.

Priesner H (1934) Indomalayische Thysanopteren VII [as VI]. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 94: 254–290.

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.

zur Strassen R (1978) Thysanopterologische Notizen (4) (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Senckenbergiana biologica 58: 185–202.

Bhatti JS (1983) Revision of Thrips species described by Schmutz. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 84 B: 479-507.

Nakahara S (1985) Review of Thrips hawaiiensis and revalidation of T. florum (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 87: 864-870.

Mound LA & Houston KJ ( 1987) An annotated check-list of Thysanoptera from Australia. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 4: 1-28.

Nakahara S (1994) The genus Thrips Linnaeus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the New World. Technical Bulletin. United States Department of Agriculture 1822: 1–183.

Mound LA & Masumoto M (2005) The genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Zootaxa 1020: 1–64.

Type information

Lectotype female, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna [Bhatti, 1983: 484]

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

Holotype (T. darci), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Holotype female (T. florum var dunbariae), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.