Neosmerinthothrips fructuum

Nomenclatural details

Neosmerinthothrips fructuum Schmutz, 1913: 1052.

Oedemothrips ceylonicus Karny, 1925: 137. Synonymised by Mound, 1974:152.

Biology and Distribution

From Sri Lanka, also recorded from India.

References

Schmutz K (1913) Zur Kenntnis der Thysanopterenfauna von Ceylon. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 122(7): 991–1089.

Karny H (1925) On some tropical Thysanoptera. Bulletin of entomological Research 16: 125–142.

Mound LA (1974) The Nesothrips complex of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 31: 109–188.

Type information

Lectotype male in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt; holotype female of ceylonicus in the Natural History Museum, London.