Gelothrips cinctus

Nomenclatural details

Rhipidothrips cinctus Hood, 1918: 121.

Aeolothrips (Gelothrips) alis Bhatti, 1967: 5. Synonymised by Bhatti, 1971: 88.

Described from northern Australia, and the synonym from India, this species lives at the base of grasses.

Hood JD (1918) New genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 121–150.

Bhatti JS (1967) Thysanoptera nova Indica. Published by the author, Delhi. pp. 1–24.

Bhatti JS (1971) Studies on some aeolothripids (Thysanoptera). Oriental Insects 5: 83–90.

Mound LA & Marullo R (1998) Biology and identification of Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera) in Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 929-950.

Mound LA, Tree DC & Paris D. (2012) Ozthrips – Thysanoptera in Australia. [1]

Holotype female in US National Museum of Natural History, Washington; depositary of alis not known.