Platythrips tunicatus

Nomenclatural details

Thrips tunicata Haliday, 1852: 1115.

Thrips asperulae Jordan, 1888: 568.

Platythrips obscura Reuter, 1899: 61.

Bolacothrips nigricornis Bagnall, 1913: 239.

Platythrips macroptera Priesner, 1920: 57.

Biology and Distribution

Described from England (T. tunicata, B. nigricornis), Gottingen, Germany from Asperula odorata (T. asperulae), Finland (P. obscura) and Austria (P. macroptera).

References

Priesner H (1920) Beitrag sur Kenntnis der Thysanopteren Oberösterreichs. Jahresberichte Musem Francisco Carolinus 78: 50–63.

Bagnall RS (1913) Further notes on new and rare British Thysanoptera (Terebrantia) with descriptions of new species. Journal of economic Biology 8: 231–240.

Reuter OM (1899) Thysanoptera Fennica. Acta Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 17(2): 1-67.

Jordan (1888) Anatomie und biologic der Physapoda. Zeitschrift fiir Wissenscheaftliche Zoologie 47: 541-620.

Haliday AH (1852) Order III Physapoda. pp. 1094–1118 in Walker F List of the Homopterous insects in the British Museum Part IV. London: British Museum.

Type information

Holotype male (B. nigricornis), The Natural History Museum, London.