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THE COMPOSITE THRIPS, MICROCEPHALOTHRIPS ABDOMINALIS (CRAWFORD)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Stanley F. Bailey
Stanley F. Bailey
Affiliation:
Department of Entomlogy, University of California
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Extract

It is often more convenient to call an insect hy its common name than by its scientific name. This doubtless is the case with Microcephalothrips abdominalis (Crawford). Watson (1923) first referred to this thrips as the “Compositae Thrips” and, in view of its decided preference for members of this plant family, it seems appropriate to adopt this common name.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 69 , Issue 6 , June 1937 , pp. 121 - 126
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1937

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References

1 Priesner writes in a letter of Dec. 7, 1936, “Ctenothripella was never described as a genus but was mentioned in letters by myself as a subgenus and during my work on my monograph it was recognized by me as a synonym of Bagnall's Microcephalothrips which I then did not consider as a genus.”

2 Priesner states in above correspondence, “This is not identical with Stylothrips Bondar, nec Karny, Conreio Agr. Bahia, 2, p. 46, 1924, (=Retithrips March).”

3 The writer has not seen this reference.

4 The following unpublished records are made available by Dr. Priesner:

“Java: Batavia, 22. VIII. 20, in flowers of Derris uliginosa (Roxb.) Bth., Coll. Karny.—Pangrango. 3000 M., 1923, No. 58, Coll. Krany.

Sumatra: Prapat, Lake Toba, 4.5.1922, on Tagetes sp. (ornamental), very numerous, coll. L. Fulmek.—Prapat, Lake Toba, 4.6.1922, on Rudbeckia lacinata, very numerous, coll. L. Fulmek.—Medan Geon. Mariah, 600 m., 12.7.1925, on Tithonia tagetifolia Bt., coll. Fulmek.—Soengei-Bahasa, East Coast, 20.IX.1922, on composite with white flowers, coll. Fulmek, No.13.—Bindjej Estate, East Coast, 17.2.1922, on the tassels of flowering maize-cobs, dead, coll. Fulmek.”