Hoplothrips semicaecus

Nomenclatural details

Trichothrips semicaeca Uzel, 1895: 249.
Trichothrips amabilis Bagnall, 1926: 283.
Hoplothrips (Trichothrips) fieldsi Crawford JC, 1939: 77.

Biology and distribution

Described from New York USA (H. fieldsi), England (T. amabilis) and Czech Republic (T. semicaeca). Recorded from Honshu, Japan (Okajima, 2006) and New Zealand (Mound & Walker, 1986).

Distribution: Recorded widely across central and western Europe, also from Bulgaria, and also from North America, Japan and New Zealand. Mound & Walker (1986) gave reasons for suggesting that this species may have been distributed from New Zealand by 19th century shipping. H. semicaecus occurs on dead branches and under bark of dead trees, fungus-feeder (Okajima, 2006).

References

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

Bagnall RS (1926) On some new British Thysanoptera. Entomologist’s monthly Magazine 62: 279–285.

Crawford JC (1939) Thysanoptera from northern New Jersey with descriptions of new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 47: 69–81.

Mound LA & Walker AK (1986) Tubulifera (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 10: 1–140.

Okajima S (2006) The Insects of Japan. Volume 2. The suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Fukuoka: Touka Shobo Co. Ltd. pp. 1–720.

Mound LA, Collins DW, Hastings A (2018) Thysanoptera Britannica et Hibernica – Thrips of the British Isles. Lucidcentral.org, Identic Pty Ltd, Queensland, Australia LINK.

Type information

Holotype (T. amabilis): The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype (H. fieldsi): National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.