Arorathrips texanus

Nomenclatural details

Chirothrips texanus Andre, 1939: 200.

Chirothrips auriventris Hood, 1939: 469.

Chirothrips spinosus Moulton, 1946: 49.

Chirothrips pubescens Hood, 1949: 20.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Palacios, Texas USA (C. texanus), Florida USA (C. auriventris), Brazil (C. pubescens) and Haiti (C. spinosus)

References

Nakahara S & Foottit RG (2012) Review of Chirothrips and related genera (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the Americas, with descriptions of one new genus and four new species. Zootaxa 3251: 1–29.

zur Strassen R (1960) Key to and catalogue of the known species of Chirothrips Haliday, 1836 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 23: 144–176.

Hood JD (1949) Brasilian Thysanoptera I. Revista de Entomologia 20: 3–88.

Andre F (1939) A synopsis of the American species of Chirothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 41: 192–204.

Hood JD (1939) Notes on Chirothrips, with descriptions of two new species (Thysanoptera). Revista de Entomologia 10: 461–471.

Type information

Holotype (C. texanus), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype (C. spinosus), Californian Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.