Liothrips (Liothrips) konoi
Nomenclatural details
Liothrips brevitubus Kono, 1964: 4.
Liothrips konoi Mound, Goldarazena, Lopez-Guillen & Hance, 2016: 597. Replacement name for brevitubus Kono, not brevitubus Karny.
Biology and Distribution
Described from Java, Indonesia (L. brevitubus Karny),and the synonyms (L. malloti) and (var. flavicornis) from Taiwan.
The two homonyms presumably represent two further species: R. brevitubus Moulton from Mexico, Mazatlan, and L. brevitubus Kono from USA, California.
References
Kono (1964) Thysanoptera Studies: Three new tubuliferous Thrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) Volume 1 Issue 4 of Occasional papers, California Department of Agriculture.
Mound L, Goldarazena A, Lopez-Guillen G & Hance T (2016) Replacement names for two homonyms of Liothrips brevitubus Karny: one from California, the other for a species damaging Jatropha crops in Mexico. Zootaxa 4208 (6): 594–599. []
Type information
Holotype female (L. brevitubus Kono), California Dept Agriculture, Sacramento.