Heterothrips decacornis

Nomenclatural details

Heterothrips decacornis Crawford DL, 1909: 110.

Heterothrips borinquen Hood, 1915: 1.

Heterothrips bonampakus Johansen, 1981: 160.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Mexico (H. decacornis, H. bonampakus) and Puerto Rico (H. borinquen). Recorded from Trinidad, Jamaica on cherry flowers and Guadeloupe in Malpighia flowers.

References

Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–488.

Johansen RM (1981) Cinco nuevos Tisanopteros (Terebrantia: Heterothripidae; Thripidae) de Chiapas, Caxaca Y Veracruz, Mexico. Anales del Instituto de Biologia. Universidad Nacional de Mexico 51 [1980]: 321–338.

Hood JD (1915) Descriptions of new American Thysanoptera. Insecutor inscitiae menstruus 3: 1–40.

Crawford DL (1910) Thysanoptera of Mexico and the south II. Pomona College Journal of Entomology 2: 153–170.

Type information

Holotype female (H. borinquen), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Syntype (H. decacornis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.