Thrips vulgatissimus

Nomenclatural details

Thrips vulgatissimus Haliday, 1836: 447.
Physopus pallipennis Uzel, 1895: 110.
Physopus pallipennis adusta Uzel, 1895: 110.
Taeniothrips lemanis Treherne, 1924: 87.
Taeniothrips gracilis Priesner, 1926: 298.
Taeniothrips atricornis Priesner, 1926: 298.
Taeniothrips americanus Moulton, 1929: 130.
Physothrips gentianae Bagnall, 1933: 653. Synonymy in zur Strassen, 2000: 30.
Taeniothrips tahvanus Hukkinen, 1936: 138.

Biology and distribution

Described from England (T. vulgatissimus), Finland (T. tahvanus), British Colombia, Canada from Acer macrophyllum buds (T. lemanis), Swizerland (T. gracilis), Austria (T. atricornis), Colorado USA (T. americanus), Italy (P. gentianae) and former Czechoslovakia (P. pallipennis; P. pallipennis adusta).

Distribution: Europe, Palaearctic Asia, Greenland, North America. Introduced to New Zealand. Thrips vulgatissimus is found on flowers of a wide range of plants, but especially on Apiaceae and Asteraceae.

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.

Uzel H (1895) Monographie der Ordnung Thysanoptera. Königrätz, Bohemia: pp. 1–472.

Treherne RC (1924) Thysanoptera known to occur in Canada. Canadian Entomologist 56: 82–88.

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

Moulton D (1929) New California Thysanoptera. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 5: 125–136.

Bagnall RS (1933) Contributions towards a knowledge of the European Thysanoptera IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)11: 647–661.

Hukkinen (1935) Verzeichnis der Thysanopteren Finnlands. Annales Entomologici Fennici 2: pp. 124-140.

Nakahara S (1994) The genus Thrips Linnaeus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the New World. Technical Bulletin. United States Department of Agriculture 1822: 1–183.

zur Strassen R (2000) Thysanopterologische Notizen (7) (Thysanoptera: Terebrantia). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 44: 25–34.

Mound LA & Masumoto M (2005) The genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Zootaxa 1020: 1–64.