Dorythrips chilensis

Nomenclatural details

Dorythrips chilensis Hood, 1931: 1.

Biology and Distribution

From Chile, also Argentina (Mendoza) from flowers of Adesmia trijunta (de Borbon, 2009)

References

Hood JD (1931) A new genus and species of Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera) from Chile. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 26: 1–3.

de Borbon, CM (2009) A redefinition of Dorythrips (Thysanoptera: Melanthripidae) with a description of a new species from Argentina. Zootaxa 2121: 17-26.

Type information

holotype, female in US national Museum of natural History, Washington.