Aulacothrips dictyotus

Nomenclatural details

Aulacothrips dictyotus Hood, 1952: 142.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, Brazil from Compositae and Solanum sp..

References

Hood JD (1952) Brasilian Thysanoptera III. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 65: 141–174.

Pitkin BR (1978) Lectotype designations of certain species of thrips described by J.D.Hood and notes on his collection (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 80: 264–295.

Izzo TJ, Pinent SMJ & Mound LA (2002) Aulacothrips dictyotus (Heterothripidae), the first ectoparasitic thrips (Thysanoptera). Florida Entomologist 85: 281–283.

Type information

Lectotype female, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.