Species identity crisis among New World members of the genus Heliothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae: Panchaetothripinae) Author Silva, Larinne De Maria Rocha Author O’Donnell, Cheryle A. 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 Author Lima, Élison Fabrício Bezerra Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, Universidade Federal do Piauí, BR 343, KM 3.5. Floriano, PI, Brazil. 64808 - 605. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-07-31 5489 1 153 172 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5489.1.11 journal article 300889 10.11646/zootaxa.5489.1.11 76f3b5f7-cf54-4140-9a06-597d8036cbe5 1175-5326 13210997 F77CE5F4-D5F6-4C0F-87C2-C8060CEC5093 Heliothrips ardisiae Zimmermann Heliothrips ardisiae Zimmermann, 1900: 10 Based on a series of specimens taken from more than one species of Ardisia in Java, these specimens are not available in any known collection. Because of the lack of certainty of its identity based only on an old and imprecise description, this species is here considered a nomen dubium , as suggested by Wilson (1975) .