extant species
Thrips minutissimus
Nomenclatural details
Thrips minutissimus Linnaeus, 1758: 457.
Thrips obscura Coesfeld, 1898: 473.
Bagnallia variabilis Williams, 1913: 227.
Thrips evestigatus Oettingen, 1944: 41.
Biology and distribution
Described from Sweden (T. minutissimus), Germany (T. obscura), England (B. variabilis) and Lithuania (T. evestigatus).
Distribution: common and widely spread in Europe. Stenochronous species emerging in high abundance during spring, mainly in beech forests (Ulitzka, 1999) but also to be found in shadowed places on different deciduous trees, often on Carpinus or Quercus, also on Rosaceae. Living on young flowering twigs.
References
Linnaeus C (1758) Systema Naturae. Holmiae: Laurentii Salvii. 10th Edition pp. 1–823.
Coesfeld (1898) Beiträge zur Verbreitung von Thysanopteren. Abhandlung Naturwissenschaftlicher Verhandlungen Bremen 14: 469-474.
Williams (1913) Records and descriptions of British Thysanoptera. Journal of Economic Entomology 8: 216-230.
Oettingen (1944) Beiträge zur Systematik und Biologie einiger Thysanopterenarten 4. Beschreibung einiger neuer Thysanopteren aus Mitteleuropa. Arbeiten über Morphologische und Taxonomische Entomologie 1: 1-42.
Nakahara S (1994) The genus Thrips Linnaeus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) of the New World. Technical Bulletin. United States Department of Agriculture 1822: 1–183.
Type information
Syntype (Bagnallia variables): National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.