Plectrothrips thoracicus

Nomenclatural details

Plectrothrips thoracicus Hood, 1954: 48.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Belem, Para, Brazil from dead branches of Hevea.

References

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

Hood JD (1954) Brasilian Thysanoptera IV. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 67: 17–54.

Type information

Holotype female, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.