Aptinothrips

Genus information

Thrips (Aptinothrips) Haliday, 1836: 445. Type species Thrips (Aptinothrips) rufa Haliday, 1836, by subsequent designation, Mound & Palmer, 1974.

Uzeliella Bagnall, 1908: 5. Type species Uzeliella lubbocki Bagnall, 1908, by monotypy, synonym of Thrips rufa Haliday.

Carinopleuris Bagnall, 1908: 5. Nomen nudum. Type species Uzeliella lubbocki Bagnall, 1908, by monotypy.

Apithrips Dyadechko, 1964: 153. Type species Aptinothrips rufus f. intermedia Priesner 1921, by monotypy.

Apothrips Dyadechko, 1964: 153. Type species Thrips stylifera Trybom 1894, by subsequent designation.

Biology and Distribution

Holarctic, on grasses.

References

Haliday AH (1836) An epitome of the British genera in the Order Thysanoptera with indications of a few of the species. Entomological Magazine 3: 439–451.

Bagnall RS (1908) Notes on some genera and species new to the British fauna. Entomologist's monthly Magazine 44: 3–7.

Dyadechko P (1964) Thrips (Thysanoptera) of the European part of the U.S.S.R., 387 pp. Kiev [in Russian].

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1974) Thrips rufa Gmelin, 1970 (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae): proposed rejection as a nomen dubium under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 31(4): 228-229.

Palmer JM (1975) The grass-living genus Aptinothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of Entomology (B) 44(2): 175-188.

Hoddle HS, Mound LA & Paris D (2012) Thrips of California 2012. [1]

Alavi J (2020) Aptinothrips iraniensis sp. n. (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) with a key to the four Aptinothrips species known from Iran. Zootaxa 4816 (2): 247–250.