Hydatothrips adolfifriderici

Nomenclatural details

Hydatothrips adolfifriderici Karny, 1913: 218.

Sericothrips occipitalis Hood, 1917: 32.

Sericothrips bedfordi Priesner, 1965: 242.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Rwanda (H. adolfifriderici), Ibadan, Nigeria from Desmodium lasiocarpum (S. occipitalis) and Sudan (S. bedfordi).

References

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 (1965) A monograph of the Thysanoptera of the Egyptian deserts. Publications de la Institut Desert Egypte 13: 1–549.

Hood JD (1917) A new Sericothrips (Thysanoptera) from Africa. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 12: 32–34.

Karny H (1913) Thysanoptera. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907-1908 4: 281–282.

Type information

Holotype (H. adolfifriedrici), Humboldt University Museum, Berlin.

Lectotype female (S. occipitalis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.