Plectrothrips antennatus

Nomenclatural details

Plectrothrips antennatus Hood, 1908: 370.

Plectrothrips parvus Priesner, 1921: 203.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Illinois USa (P. antennatus) and Paraguay (P. parvus). Recorded from Brazil and Mexico.

References

Okajima S (1981) A revision of the tribe Plectrothripini of fungus-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Phlaeothripinae). Systematic Entomology 6: 291–336

Pitkin BR (1978) Lectotype designations of certain species of thrips described by J.D.Hood and notes on his collection (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 80: 264–295.

Priesner H (1921) Neue und wenig bekannte Thysanopteren der neotropischen Fauna aus der Sammlung des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. Deutsche entomologische Zeitung 1921: 187–223.

Hood JD (1908) New genera and species of Illinois Thysanoptera. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 8: 361–379.

Type information

Holotype female (P. parvus), Museum fur Naturkunde Humboldt -Universitat, Berlin.

Lectotype female (P. antennatus), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.