Megalothrips picticornis

Nomenclatural details

Megalothrips picticornis Hood, 1927: 204.

Docessissophothrips animus Moulton, 1929: 242. Synonymised by Hood (1931: 172).

Biology and Distribution

Described from California USA. Recorded from Utah USA and Oregon USA.

References

Hood JD (1927) New western Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 40: 197–204.

Moulton D (1929) Contribution to our knowledge of American Thysanoptera. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 24: 224–244.

Hood JD (1931) Synonyms in the North American Thysanoptera. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 7 (4): 170-172.

Pitkin BR (1978) Lectotype designations of certain species of thrips described by J.D.Hood and notes on his collection (Thysanoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 80: 264–295.

Hoddle HS, Mound LA & Paris D (2012) Thrips of California 2012. [1]

Type information

Lectotype female (M. picticornis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype male (D. animus), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.