Mecynothrips simplex

Nomenclatural details

Mecynothrips simplex Bagnall, 1912: 216.

Kleothrips gigans Schmutz, 1913: 1058. Synonymised by Ananthakrishnan, 1970: 130.

Dracothrips ceylonicus Bagnall, 1914: 290. Synonymised by Bagnall, 1918: 219.

Kleothrips agama Priesner, 1935: 323. Synonymised by Ananthakrishnan, 1970: 130.

Biology and Distribution

Widespread from Sri Lanka and India to Philippines, Java, Indonesia and Borneo.

References

Bagnall RS (1912) Preliminary description of three new species of Thysanoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)9: 214–217.

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

Bagnall RS (1914) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera. III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 813: 287–297.

Bagnall RS (1918) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera IX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 1: 201-221.

Priesner H (1935) Indomalayische Thysanopteren VI. Konowia 14: 58–339.

Ananthakrishnan TN (1970) Kleothrips gigans Schmutz - A Study in Intraspecific Diversity (Thys. Tubulifera). Bulletin of Entomology, Madras 10: 130-133.

Type information

Holotype male (M. simplex), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype male (K. agama), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Syntypes (K. gigans), Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.