Anisopilothrips venustulus
Nomenclatural details
Heliothrips venustulus Priesner, 1923: 89.
Astrothrips angulatus Hood, 1925: 50. Synonymised by Wilson, 1975.
Biology and Distribution
Described from Grenada on cacao leaves (A. angulatus) and Paramaribo, Suriname (H. venustulus). Paratypes from Trinidad on Chloropora tinctoria. Recorded from Florida USA, widely around the Caribbean, also Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia and Fiji (Mound & Marullo, 1996: 79).
References
Priesner H (1923) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Thysanopteren Surinams. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 66: 88–111.
Hood JD (1925) New neotropical Thysanoptera collected by C.B. Williams. Psyche 32: 48–69.
Wilson (1975) A Monograph of the subfamily Panchateothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 23: 1-354.
Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1-488.
Type information
Holotype female (H. venustulus), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.
Lectotype female (A. angulatus), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
File:Anisopilothrips venustulus HdPro.jpg Anisopilothrips venustulus head and pronotum |
File:Anisopilothrips venustulus MesMet.jpg Anisopilothrips venustulus meso- and metanotum |
File:Anisopilothrips venustulus Tergs.jpg Anisopilothrips venustulus tergites |
File:Anisopilothrips venustulus VIII-X.jpg Anisopilothrips venustulus VIII-X |
