Scirtothrips citri

Nomenclatural details

Euthrips citri Moulton, 1909: 119.

Scirtothrips citri (Moulton) Hood, 1914: 37.

Scirtothrips clivicola Hood, 1957: 49.

Scirtothrips admangiferaffinis Johansen & Mojica-Guzman, 1999: 34. Synonymised Mound & Hoddle, 2016: 763.

Biology and Distribution

Described from California USA from orange (E. citri) and Chiricahua mountains, Arizona USA from grasses and herbs (S. clivicola); from Mangifera indica, Mexico (admangiferaffinis;

References

Moulton D (1909) The orange thrips. Technical series, USDA Bureau of Entomology (7) 12: 119–122.

Hood JD (1914) On the proper generic names of certain Thysanoptera of economic importance. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 16: 34-44.

Hood JD (1957) Fifteen new Thysanoptera from the United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 70: 49–60.

Johansen RM & Mojica-Guzman A (1999) The genus Scirtothrips Shull, 1909 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae, Sericothripini), in Mexico. Folia Entomologia Mexicana 104: 23–108. [1998]

Mound, L. & Hoddle, M (2016) Scirtothrips species (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) described from mango, Mangifera indica, in Mexico. Florida Entomologist 99(4):759-764.

Type information

Holotype female (S. clivicola), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Lectotype female (E. citri), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Holotype females (admangiferaffinis; in Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.