Thorybothrips unicolor

Nomenclatural details

Cryptothrips unicolor Schille, 1911: 8.
Thorybothrips graminis Priesner, 1924: 540.
Thorybothrips simplex von Oettingen, 1943: 99.

Biology and distribution

Described from Poland (C. unicolor), Hungary (T. graminis) and Lithuania (T. simplex).

Distribution: Europe, locally distributed and rare. Mainly known from single records. Reported from Albania, Austria, former Czechoslovakia, Germany (Ulitzka unpublished), Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and from central European parts of Russia.
Thorybothrips unicolor is living in dry grassland habitats (e.g. Stipa, Bothriochloa).

References

Schille (1912) Materialien zu einer Thysanopteren- (Blasenfüße) und Collembolen-Fauna Galiziens. Entomologische Zeitschrift Frankfurt 25: (225 229-230 232-233 236-237 240-242 244-246).

Priesner H (1924) Neue Thysanopteren. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 133: 527–542.

von Oettingen (1943) Grundlagen zu einer Thysanopterenfauna Litauens. Arbeiten über Morphologische und Taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem 10: pp. 73-101.

Type information

Unknown.