Anisopilothrips venustulus

Nomenclatural details

Heliothrips venustulus Priesner, 1923: 89.

Astrothrips angulatus Hood, 1925: 50. Synonymised by Wilson, 1975.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Grenada on cacao leaves (A. angulatus) and Paramaribo, Suriname (H. venustulus). Paratypes from Trinidad on Chloropora tinctoria. Recorded from Florida USA, widely around the Caribbean.

References

Hood JD (1925) New neotropical Thysanoptera collected by C.B. Williams. Psyche 32: 48–69.

Priesner H (1923) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Thysanopteren Surinams. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 66: 88–111.

Wilson (1975) A Monograph of the subfamily Panchateothripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 23: 1-354.

Type information

Holotype female (H. venustulus), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Lectotype female (A. angulatus), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.