Replacement names for two homonyms of Liothrips brevitubus Karny: one from California, the other for a species damaging Jatropha crops in Mexico
Author
Mound, Laurence
Author
Goldarazena, Arturo
Author
Lopez-Guillen, Guillermo
Author
Hance, Thierry
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.215123
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Liothrips konoi
nom.nov.
Liothrips brevitubus
Kono, 1964
: 4
. Homonym of
Liothrips brevitubus
Karny, 1912
: 156
.
This species remains known only from the original three micropterous females listed below. The species was described
as “apterous”, although the fore wing lobe is clearly visible, 180 microns long, deeply shaded and bearing three stout
black sub-basal setae. These setae are similar to the postocular and pronotal having the apices paler and smoothly spoon-
shaped rather than capitate. In the original description the species was compared to
lepidus
Cott, but that species is
known only from macropterae, as are most of the 11 species of
Liothrips
recorded from California (
Hoddle
et al
. 2012
).
There is a possibility that the
brevitubus
specimens might eventually be recognised as micropterae of one of the other
species based on macropterae, but a new name is proposed here to avoid confusion with the species from
Indonesia
.
Specimens
studied
:
California
,
Calexico
,
holotype
and two
paratype
female micropterae of
brevitubus
Kono
, from
willow,
12.iii.1945
, in California Department of Food and Agriculture collection, Sacramento.
TABLE
I.
Liothrips
species from
Mexico