Aeolothrips melaleucus

Nomenclatural details

Coleothrips melaleuca Haliday, 1852: 1117.
Aeolothrips fasciatus var. conjunctus Priesner, 1914: 259.
Aeolothrips annectans Hood, 1916: 109.
Aeolothrips conjunctus f. adustus Priesner, 1920: 51.
Aeolothrips concinus Ishida, 1931: 32.
Aeolothrips uzeli Bagnall, 1934: 482. Synonymised by Mound, 1968: 11.

Biology and distribution

Described from England (C. melaleuca), Austria (A. fasciata var. conjunctus and A. adusta), USA, Maryland (A. annectans) and from Manchuria, Ourga Tsitsikhar (A. uzeli).

Distribution: Holarctic.
Aeolothrips fasciatus feeds predatory on small arthropods such as mites and thrips larvae. It is found in flowers and on leaves of various deciduous trees, often on Crataegus, Fraxinus, Ligustrum, Quercus, Sambucus and Sorbus.

References

Haliday AH (1852) Order III Physapoda. pp. 1094–1118 in Walker F List of the Homopterous insects in the British Museum Part IV. London: British Museum.

Priesner H (1914) Neue Thysanopteren (Blasenfüße) aus Österreich. Entomologische Zeitung, Frankfurt 27: 259–266.

Hood JD (1916) Descriptions of new Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 29: 109–124.

Ishida M (1931) Fauna of the Thysanoptera of Japan. Insecta matsumurana 7(1): 32–42.

Bagnall RS (1934) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera XVIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)13: 481–498.

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

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