Hoplandrothrips flavipes

Nomenclatural details

Hoplandrothrips flavipes Bagnall, 1923: 628.

Phloeothrips gracilicornis Priesner, 1927: 72.

Phloeothrips claratibia Moulton, 1937: 414.

Phloeothrips kinugasai Kurosawa, 1937: 316.

Phloeothrips indicus Ramakrishna & Margabandhu, 1939: 43.

Phlaeothrips (Hoplandrothrips) flavitibia Moulton, 1944: 300.

Phlaeothrips (Hoplandrothrips) fuscus Moulton, 1944: 302.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Kenya (H. flavipes), Fiji (P. flavitibia, P. fuscus), Hawaii USA (P. claratibia), Nigeria (P. gracilicornis), India (P. indicus) and Japan (P. kinugasai). Specimens from Borneo, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and West Malaysia have been studied (Okajima, 2006) as well as specimens from Trinidad, St Lucia, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia (Mound & Marullo, 1996).

References

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

Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–488.

zur Strassen R (1983) Thysanopterologische Notizen (6) (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Senckenbergiana biologica 63: 191–209.

Mound LA (1970) Thysanoptera from the Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 24: 83–126.

Moulton D (1944) Thysanoptera of Fiji. Occasional Papers of the Bishop Museum 17: 267–311.

Ramakrishna TV & Margabandhu V (1939) Notes on Indian Thysanoptera with descriptions of new species. Indian Journal of Entomology 1: 35–48.

Kurosawa (1937) A quarantine interception of a new Phlaeothrips from Japanese South Sea islands. Zoological Magazine (Tokyo) 49: 316-318.

Moulton D (1937) Further notes on Hawaiian thrips with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian entomological Society 9: 409–414

Priesner H (1927) Neue und wenig bekannte Thysanopteren, gesammelt in Westafrika von Prof. Dr. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorie di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici 21: 61–83.

Bagnall RS (1923) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera XIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)12: 624–631.

Type information

Holotype (H. flavipes), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype (P. flavitibia), Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu.

Holotype (P. fuscus), Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu.

Holotype (P. claratibia), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.catergory: Phlaeothripinae species