Haplothrips (Trybomiella) pallescens

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Dyothrips pallescens_Female head and pronotum [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Zygothrips pallescens Hood, 1919: 78.

Watsoniella helena Girault, 1928: 4. Synonymised by Pitkin, 1973: 332.

Haplothrips (Trybomiella) cingulatus Pelikan, 1963: 273. Synonymised by Pitkin, 1973: 332.

Haplothrips (Trybomiella) aurocingulatus Pelikan, 1968: 221. Replacement name for cingulatus Pelikan, nec cingulatus Hood.

Biology and Distribution

Described from China (H. cingulatus) and Australia (Z. pallescens and W. helena).

References

Hood JD (1919) Two new genera and thirteen new species of Australian Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 32: 75–92.

Girault AA (1928) Some new Hexapods stolen from authority. Published privately, Brisbane pp. 1–4.

Pelikan J (1963) A new Haplothrips from China. Časopis Československé Společnosti Entomologické (Acta Societatis Entomologicae Cechosloveniae) 60: 273-276.

Pelikan J (1968) Two new Thysanoptera from Asia with notes on synonymy. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 65: 216-221.

Pitkin BR (1973) A revision of the Australian Haplothripini, with descriptions of three new species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 315–339.

Okajima S (2006) The Insects of Japan. Volume 2. The suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Fukuoka: Touka Shobo Co. Ltd. pp. 1–720.

Type information

Holotype female (Z. pallescens), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian institution, Washington DC.

Holotype female(H. cingulatus), Beijing Institute of Entomology, Academia Sinica.

Holotype (W. helena), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Nomenclatural details

Haplothrips pallescens Hood, 1919: ????.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Humpty Doo, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia on dead Mangifera leaves.

References

Mound LA & Minaei K (2007) Australian thrips of the Haplothrips lineage (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Journal of Natural History 41: 2919–2978.

Type information

Holotype male, Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra.

Genus information

Dyothrips Kudo, 1974: 114. Type species Haplothrips cingulatus Pelikan 1963, by monotypy.

Biology and Distribution

One species only, from Poaceae in southeastern Asia and Australia.

References

Kudo I (1974) Some graminivorous and gall forming Thysanoptera of Taiwan. Kontyu 42: 110–116.

Species

Dyothrips pallescens (Hood, 1919)