Heterothrips cacti

Nomenclatural details

Heterothrips cacti Hood, 1955: 130.

Heterothrips sensibilis De Santis, 1980: 102.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Ingerieno Juarez, Formosa, Argentina, in cactus flowers (H. cacti). H. sensibilis also from Argentina.

References

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

de Santis L, de Sureda AEG & Merlo EZ (1980) Estudio sinoptico de los Tisanopteros Argentinos (Insecta). Obra del centenario de Museo de La Plata 6: 91–166.

Hood (1954) New American terebrantian Thysanoptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 62: 129-138.

Type information

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

Holotype (H. sensibilis), La Plata Museum.