Limothrips cerealium

Nomenclatural details

Thrips (Limothrips) cerealium Haliday, 1836: 445.
Limothrips avenae Hinds, 1902: 139.
Limothrips aptera Karny, 1914: 56.
Limothrips minor Bagnall, 1927: 565.
Limothrips adusta Maltbaek, 1927: 14.
Limothrips cerealium ssp. astutus Priesner, 1964: 115. Synonym for T. (Limothrips) cerealium.
Limothrips syriacus Jenser, 2009: 83.

Biology and distribution

Described from England (T. cerealium), Syria (L. syriacus), Denmark (L. adusta), Sardinia, Italy (L. minor, L. aptera), Cyprus (L. astutus) and Massachusetts USA (L. avenae).

Distribution: Semi-cosmopolitan. Living in the ears of different grasses including cereals; corp pest in corn fields. Locally very abundant. Females show mass flights in summer (thunderbugs); males are wingless.

Corresponding plant damage

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.

Karny H (1914) Beitrag zur Thysanopterenfauna des Mediterrangebietes. Verhandlungen der Zoologische Botanisches Gesellschaft 64: 50–60.

Maltbaek (1927) Haderslev Katedralskoles Aarskrift. 1927: VI, XIV.

Bagnall RS (1927) Contributions towards a knowledge of the European Thysanoptera II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)19: 564–575.

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1974) Notes on Thysanoptera from Israel. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 109: 102–106.

Jenser G (2009) New Thysanoptera species from Syria, with descriptions of Limothrips syriacus sp.n. (Thripidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica 70: 81–85.

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

Type information

Holotype (L. syriacus): Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.

Syntype (L. avenae): National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Syntype (L. minor): The Natural History Museum, London.