Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, 1919

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

Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, 1919

Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, 1919: 90

Heliothrips minutissimus Bagnall, 1919: 260

Anaphothrips andreae Karny, 1925: 24

Neophysopus fragariae Girault, 1927: 1. Synonymised by Mound & Palmer (1981) | Scirtothrips dorsalis var. padmae Ramakrishna, 1942: 169.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: E.N & L.H; individualID: 2018-V-27; individualCount: 17; sex: 14 males, 3 females; lifeStage: adults; occurrenceID: YAU5082020 Tt 87; Taxon : scientificNameAuthorship: Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; municipality: Xishuangbanna ; locality: Mengla (Tropical Botanical Garden) ; decimalLatitude: 22.005827; decimalLongitude: 100.924822; Identification : identifiedBy: Li Yajin ; dateIdentified: 2018; identificationReferences: (ThripsWiki 2020); Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping and shaking; eventDate: 27/05/2018; Record Level : collectionID: thrips; institutionCode: YAU5082020; collectionCode: terebrantia; basisOfRecord: preserved specimen

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

leaves and collected from tea tree, pepper and beans.

Distribution

Described from Australia. Recorded from India, Indonesia and southern China.