Microcephalothrips abdominalis (Crawford DL, 1910)

Elie, Ntirenganya, Yajin, Li, Yanlan, Xie, Yanli, Zhou & Hongrui, Zhang, 2021, Checklist of the suborder Terebrantia (Thysanoptera): generic diversity and species composition in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 72670-72670 : 72670

Microcephalothrips abdominalis (Crawford DL, 1910)

Thrips abdominalis Crawford DL, 1910: 157

Thrips femoralis Jones, 1912: 4

Thrips crenatus Watson, 1922: 35

Thrips microcephalus Priesner, 1923: 116 | Thrips (Ctenothripiella) gillettei Moulton, 1926: 126

Stylothrips brevipalpis Karny, 1926: 206

Paraphysopus burnsi Girault, 1927: 2

Thrips oklahomae Watson, 1931: 342

Microcephalothrips brevipalpis armatus Ananthakrishnan, 1956: 133

Aureothrips marigoldae Raizada, 1966: 278

Microcephalothrips chinensis Feng, 1998: 257

Microcephalothrips jigonshanensis Feng, 1998: 258

Microcephalothrips yanglinensis Feng, Zhang & Sha, 2002: 167.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.Y. J; individualID: 2018-VI-2; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 74; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Microcephalothrips abdominalis ( Crawford DL); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla ( Tropical Botanical Garden ) ; decimalLatitude: 21.859515; decimalLongitude: 100.956519; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: ( ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 02/06/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

flowers and collected from sunflower.

Distribution

Described from Mexico and widely distributed.