Ceratothripoides claratris (Shumsher)

Taeniothrips claratris Shumsher, 1946: 178

Mycterothrips moultoni Seshadri & Ananthakrishnan, 1954: 213 Ceratothrips reticulatus Reyes, 1994: 183 [synonymised by Bhatti, 2003: 8]

The significance of this species is discussed above under C. cameroni, of which it is possibly a variant. The two remain separated here primarily because the name C. claratris has become widely used in Asia in economic entomological literature (Premachandra et al., 2005). The name claratris has been used for specimens from various localities across India and Thailand, and also from Luzon in the Philippines (Bhatti, 1990, 2003).