Poecilothrips albopictus

Nomenclatural details

Poecilothrips albopicta Uzel, 1895: 264.

Phloeothrips ornatus Hood, 1913: 165.

Cephalothrips harrisoni Bagnall, 1926: 658.

Poecilothrips lupini Moulton, 1929: 133.

Biology and Distribution

Described from the Czech Republic (P. albopicta), France (C. harrisoni) and Washington DC (P. ornatus) & California (P. lupini) USA. Recorded from New Zealand from traps and dead wood of apricot, pine and walnut.

References

Uzel H (1895) Monographie der Ordnung Thysanoptera. Königratz, Bohemia: pp. 1–472.

Hood JD (1913) Nine new Thysanoptera from the United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26: 161-166.

Bagnall RS (1926) Contributions towards a knowledge of the European Thysanoptera I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)18: 641–661.

Moulton D (1929) New California Thysanoptera. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 5: 125–136.

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 & Walker AK (1986) Tubulifera (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 10: 1–140.

Type information

Holotype female (P. ornatus), The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype female (C. harrisoni), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype female(P. lupini), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.