Anisopilothrips venustulus

Nomenclatural details

Heliothrips venustulus Priesner, 1923: 89.

Astrothrips angulatus Hood, 1925: 50.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Grenada on cacao leaves (A. angulatus) and Paramaribo, Suriname (H. venustulus). Paratypes from Trinidad on Chloropora tinctoria. Recorded from Florida USA.

References

Wilson (1975) A Monograph of the subfamily Panchateothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 23: 1-354.

Priesner H (1923) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Thysanopteren Surinams. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 66: 88–111.

Hood JD (1925) New neotropical Thysanoptera collected by C.B. Williams. Psyche 32: 48–69.

Type information

Holotype female (H. venustulus), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Lectotype female (A. angulatus), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.