Copidothrips

Genus information

Copidothrips Hood, 1954: 188. Type species Copidothrips formosus Hood, 1954, by monotypy.

Mesostenothrips Stannard & Mitri, 1962: 210. Type species Mesostenothrips kraussi Stannard & Mitri 1962, by monotypy. Synonymised by Bhatti, 1967: 9.

Biology and Distribution

One species from Oriental region, also recorded from Caribbean.

References

Hood JD (1954) Three new heliothripine Thysanoptera from Formosa. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 56: 188–193.

Stannard LJ & Mitri TJ (1962) Preliminary studies on the Tryphactothrips complex in which Anisopilothrips, Mesostenothrips and Elixothrips are erected as new genera (Thripidae: Heliothripinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 88: 183–224.

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

Species

Copidothrips octarticulatus (Schmutz, 1913)