Belothrips acuminatus

Nomenclatural details

Thrips (Belothrips) acuminatus Haliday, 1836: 450.

Belothrips tenuicornis Priesner, 1926: 210.

Rubiothrips parisae Mirab-balou & Chen, 2013: 160. Synonymised by Mirab-balou et al., 2025

Biology and Distribution

Described from England (T. acuminatus). Locality of B. tenuicornis is unknown. R. parisae was described from Iran on flowers of Galium verum (Rubiaceae). Also taken from leaves of Ambrosia botrys (Chenopodiaceae).

References

Haliday AH (1836) An epitome of the British genera in the Order Thysanoptera with indications of a few of the species. Entomological Magazine 3: 439–451.

Priesner H (1926) Die Thysanopteren Europas. Abteilung I-II. Wien: F. Wagner Verlag. pp. 1–342.

Mirab-balou M, Mound L, Goldarazena A & Negis IS (2025) The Palaearctic genus Belothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), with new synonyms and new combinations. Zootaxa 5631 (2): 387–394.

Type information

Unknown. Holotype female of parisae in Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.