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Issue: Vol. 5489 No. 1: 31 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5489.1.11
Page range: 153-172
Abstract views: 99
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Species identity crisis among New World members of the genus Heliothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae: Panchaetothripinae)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação; Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral; Universidade Federal do Piauí; BR 343; KM 3.5. Floriano; PI; Brazil. 64808–605
United States Department of Agriculture; Animal; Plant; Health Inspection Services; Plant Protection Quarantine; Pest Exclusion and Import Programs; National Identification Services. 10300 Baltimore Avenue; Beltlsville; MD; USA. 20705
Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral; Universidade Federal do Piauí; BR 343; KM 3.5. Floriano; PI; Brazil. 64808–605
Thysanoptera Identification key New species Synonymy Greenhouse thrips

Abstract

Until mid-1990s, Heliothrips was considered a genus without major identification problems, with only H. haemorrhoidalis spread worldwide. More recently, concerns have arisen regarding misidentifications of this pest species around the world, particularly with the description of H. longisensibilis from China and the subsequent records from Argentina and Brazil. Here we consider that species as a new synonym of H. angustior stat. rev., and records of this species under the name H. haemorrhoidalis from the Neotropics (and also India and Thailand) are rectified, whereas in the Nearctic region only H. haemorrhoidalis is present. Both species are widespread, and morphological variations suggest other cryptic species may occur. Heliothrips flamengo sp. n. is described from the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, and an updated key to the five species of Heliothrips is provided.

 

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