Elixothrips brevisetis
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Elixothrips brevisetis head & thorax
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Elixothrips brevisetis tergites I-III
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Elixothrips brevisetis tergite X
Nomenclatural details
Tryphactothrips brevisetis Bagnall, 1919: 257.
Dinurothrips guamensis Moulton, 1942: 7.
Hoodothripiella ignacio Retana-Salazar, 2007: 24.
Biology and Distribution
Described from Mahe, Seychelles (T. brevisetis); Butaritari, Guam from Morinda citrifolia leaves (D. guamensis); from Peninsula de Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (Hoodothripiella ignacio); pest of banana fruits in Martinique (Carval et al. 2015).
References
Bagnall RS (1919) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera X. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 4: 253–277.
Moulton D (1942) Thrips of Guam. Bishop Museum Bulletin 172: 7–16.
Mound LA & Marullo R (1996) The Thrips of Central and South America: An Introduction. Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–488.
Mound LA, Tree DC & Paris D. (2012) Ozthrips – Thysanoptera in Australia. [1]
Retana-Salazar AP (2007) El grupo genérico Hoodothrips (Terebrantia: Heliothripidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana 51 (1): 15–38.
Carval D, Cotte V, Notaro M, Ryckewaert P & Tixier P. (2015) Spatiotemporal population dynamics of the banana rind thrips, Elixothrips brevisetis (Bagnall) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of Applied Entomology, 139 (7):510-518.
Type information
Holotype female (T. brevisetis), The Natural History Museum, London.
Holotype female (D. guamensis), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
Holotype female (Hoodothripiella ignacio), University of Costa Rica, San Jose.
