Distinguishing features

This species has not been studied by the present authors. According to Nakahara (1995: 236) it is distinguished from the other five species he placed in Ewartithrips by the long mouth cone that extends onto the mesosternum.

Related species

Although transferred to the genus Ewartithrips by Nakahara (1996), separation of that Californian genus from the Mediterranean genus Tenothrips is doubtful (Bhatti, 2003).

Biological data

Presumably flower-living, and possibly in Lupinus spp. [Fabaceae].

Distribution data

Known only from California.

Family name

THRIPIDAE - THRIPINAE

Species name

Tenothrips longirostrum (Jones)

Original name and synonyms

Euthrips longirostrum Jones, 1912: 10

References

Bhatti JS (2003) The genera Tenothrips and Ewartithrips (Terebrantia: Thripidae) and pigmented facets of eye in some Terebrantia. Thysanoptera 2003: 1–10.

Nakahara S (1996) Ewartithrips new genus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and four new species from California. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 103: 229–250.