Thrips atratus

Nomenclatural details

Thrips atratus Haliday, 1836: 447.
Physothrips atrata adusta Uzel, 1895: 108.
Ceratothrips britteni Bagnall, 1914: 2.
Taeniothrips longicornis Priesner, 1926: 305.

Biology and distribution

Described from England (T. atratus, C. britteni), Italy (T. longicornis) and former Czechoslovakia (P. atrata adusta).

Distribution: Holarctic (in the Palaearctic excluding North Africa), widespread in both Europe and North America.
Thrips atratus is found in the flowers of various plants, but with preference to blue or purple flowering Caryophyllaceae and Lamiaceae.

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.

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

Bagnall RS (1914) Ceratothrips britteni n.sp., a type of Thysanoptera new to the British Fauna. Journal of economic Biology 9: 1–4.

Priesner H (1926) Die Thysanopteren Europas. Abteilung I-II. Wien: F. Wagner Verlag. pp. 1–342.

Nakahara S (1994) The genus Thrips Linnaeus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the New World. Technical Bulletin. United States Department of Agriculture 1822: 1–183.