Oxythrips halidayi

Nomenclatural details

Oxythrips halidayi Bagnall, 1924: 272.

Biology and distribution

Beschrieben from England.

Oxythrips halidayi is considered rare and has been recorded in Great Britain only scattered and sporadically, from Kent to Inverness. It is also known from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Whether, and to what extent, Dutch elm disease has affected the populations of this species in the British Isles since the 1970s is unknown; since the appearance of the disease in Great Britain, there has been only a single more recent record there (in 2013). On the European mainland, Oxythrips halidayi has been reported from France, Germany and Czechia; two records are known from Germany: one ♀ from Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, and one ♀ from Erfurt, Thuringia [Ulitzka, unpublished]. In addition, the species is also known from Iran.
Oxythrips halidayi lives mainly on ash trees (Fraxinus, Oleaceae), but also on elms (Ulmus, Ulmaceae). Females occur predominantly in wing-reduced forms, ranging from brachypterous to hemimacropterous.

References

Bagnall RS (1924) New and rare British Thysanoptera. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 60: 269–275.

Collins DW (2021) Noteworthy recent records of species of Thripidae (Thysanoptera) in Great Britain. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 34: 169–191.

Masumoto M & Okajima S  (2017) Anaphothrips genus-group: key to world genera, with two new species and three new records from Japan (Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 4272 (2): 201–220.

Minaei K (2013) Thrips (Insecta, Thysanoptera) of Iran: a revised and updated checklist. ZooKeys 330: 53–74.

Mound LA, Morison GD, Pitkin BR & Palmer JM (1976) Thysanoptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 1 (11): 1–79.

Type information

Holotype ♀: British Museum of Natural History, London