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== Type information ==
 
Holotype, female in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.
 
Holotype, female in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.
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Nomenclatural details

Merothrips ottonis zur Strassen, 1959: 436.

Biology and Distribution

Described from South Africa, according to Mound & O'Neill (1974) this species is probably closely related to floridensis and introduced to Africa from the Neotropics.

References

zur Strassen R (1959) Studies in African Thysanoptera, 3. (With notes on oedimerous males in Terebrantia). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 22: 436–464.

Mound LA & O'Neill K. (1974) Taxonomy of the Merothripidae, with ecological and phylogenetic considerations (Thysanoptera). Journal of Natural History 8: 481–509.

Type information

Holotype, female in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.