Fulmekiola serrata

• Fulmekiola serrata female.jpg

  Female

• Fulmekiola serrata female abdominal sternites.jpg

  Female: abdominal sternites 2-5

• Fulmekiola serrata male sternites.jpg

  Male: abdominal sternites

Nomenclatural details

Thrips serrata Kobus, 1893: 16.

Stenothrips minutus Karny, 1915: 85.

Fulmekiola interrupta Karny, 1925: 19.

Thrips moultoni Ishida, 1934: 55.

Thrips armatus Moulton, 1936: 271. Synonymised by Palmer, 1992: 7.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Java, Indonesia (T. serrata, F. interrupta, S. minutus), Taiwan from sugar cane (T. moultoni) and Philippines from citrus seedlings (T. armatus). Recorded from St Kitts, Trinidad and Barbados on sugar cane.

References

Kobus JD (1892) Blaaspooten (Thrips). Mededeelingen van het Proefstation Oost-Java 43: 14–18.

Karny H (1915) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gallen von Java. Zweite Mitteilung über die javanischen Thysanopterocecidien und deren Bewohner. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie 11: 85–90.

Karny H (1925) Die an Tabak auf Java und Sumatra angetroffenen Blasenfüsser. Bulletin van het deli Proefstation te Medan 23: 1–55.

Ishida M (1934) Fauna of the Thysanoptera of Japan. Insecta matsumurana 9 (1-2): 55–59.

Moulton D (1936) Thysanoptera of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Journal of Agriculture 7: 263–273.

Palmer JM (1992) Thrips (Thysanoptera) from Pakistan to the Pacific: a review. Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History (Entomology) 61: 1-76.

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 (T. armatus), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Holotype female (T. moultoni), University of Hokkaido.

Syntype females (F. interrupta), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.