Allothrips mexicanus

Nomenclatural details

Allothrips watsoni mexicana Stannard, 1955: 154

Biology and Distribution

Described from Mexico, and recorded from Costa Rica (Mound & Marullo, 1996), mexicanus was considered a sub-species of megacephalus by Mound (1972).

References

Stannard LJ (1955). The species and subspecies of North American Allothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 48: 151–157.

Mound LA (1972) Polytypic species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genus Allothrips Hood (Phlaeothripidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11: 23-36.

Type information

Holotype, female in Illinois natural History Survey, Urbana.