Tarassothrips akritus

Nomenclatural details

Tarassothrips akritus Mound & Palmer, 1983: 61.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Malaysia, also Singapore, and recorded from the Philippines and Indonesia (Bali), on dead twigs and dead leaves of palm trees.

References

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1983) The generic and tribal classification of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 46: 1-174.

Okajima S (1990) The genus Tarassothrips Mound & Palmer (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) from the southeast Asian islands. Japanese Journal of Entomology 58: 11–15.

Type information

Holotype male, in the Natural History Museum, London