Astrothrips roboris

Nomenclatural details

Tryphactothrips roboris Bagnall, 1919: 257.

Astrothrips pentatoma Hood, 1925: 9. Synonymised by Mound, 1970: 41.

Astrothrips (Gamothrips) connaticornis Priesner, 1965: 214. Synonymised by Mound, 1968: 25.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Aburi, Ghana from Thunbergia laurifolia (T. roboris), Ibadan, Nigeria from Phaseolus lunatus (A. pentatoma) and Sudan (A. connaticornis).

References

Bagnall RS (1919) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera X. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 4: 253–277.

Hood JD (1925) Four new Thysanoptera from Africa. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 27: 8–12.

Priesner H (1965) A monograph of the Thysanoptera of the Egyptian deserts. Publications de la Institut Desert Egypte 13: 1–549.

Mound LA (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11: 1–181.

Mound LA (1970) Studies on heliothripine Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 39: 41–56.

Type information

Holotype female (A. pentatoma), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype female (T. roboris), The Natural History Museum, London.

Syntype (A. connaticornis), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.