Thrips pusillus

Nomenclatural details

Thrips pusillus Bagnall, 1926: 112.

Thrips meliaefloris Hood, 1932: 138.

Described from Aburi, Ghana from Stropanthus gratus flowers (T. pusillus) and Cameroon (T. meliaefloris).

Bagnall RS (1926) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera XV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)18: 98–114.

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 (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11: 1–181.

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

Lectotype female (T. pusillus), The Natural History Museum, London.