extant species, plant pests
Thrips acaciae
Biology and distribution
Described from Namibia (T. acaciae), Kenya (T. kikuyuensis), Tanzania (T. hirtiventris) and Cameroon (T. spadix).
Distribution: Widespread in Central und South-East Africa. Recorded from Botswana, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Madagascar (Ulitzka unpublished), Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar (Ulitzka unpublished).
Pest species on coffee, maize, mango and sweet potato.
References
Trybom F (1908) Physapoda. pp 1–20 in Sjöstedt Physapoda, in Sjöstedt, Wissentschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru, und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 XVI.
Trybom F (1912) Physapoden gesammelt von der Schwedischen Expedition nach dem Britischen Ostafrika. Arkiv för Zoologi 7 (22): 1–12.
Hood JD (1932) New species of the genus Thrips from Central Africa and Egypt. Bulletin de la Societe Royale entomologique d’Egypte 1932: 115–140.
Mound LA (2010) Species of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from the Afro-tropical Region. Zootaxa 2423: 1–24.
Type information
Holotype (T. hirtiventris), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Holotype (T. spadix), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Syntype (T. kikuyuensis), Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm.