Arorathrips mexicanus (Crawford DL, 1909)

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

Arorathrips mexicanus (Crawford DL, 1909)

Chirothrips mexicana Crawford DL, 1909: 114

Chirothrips floridensis Watson, 1920: 22

Chirothrips catchingsi Watson, 1924: 76. Chirothrips saltensis Tapia, 1952: 109

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.Y. J; individualID: 2017-X-22; individualCount: 2; sex: females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 44; Taxon: scientificNameAuthorship: Arorathrips mexicanus (Crawford DL); Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla ( Tropical Forest Park ), Jinghong ( Nabanhe Protected Area , Ye Xianggu ) ; decimalLatitude: 21.961529; decimalLongitude: 100.462693; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: ( ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 22/10/2017; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

Flower and collected from grasses ( Poaceae ).

Distribution

Described from Mexico. Recorded from New Orleans, Louisiana, Florida, Argentina and China.