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Thysanococcus pandani StickneyNOMENCLATURE:
Thysanococcus pandani Stickney, 1934: 127-135. Type data: INDONESIA: Java, Bogor, on Pandanus sp., by Marlatt & Zimmermann; also SINGAPORE: on P. utilis and P. penangensis. Syntypes, female. Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA. Described: both sexes. Illust. Notes: USNM has one slide marked "holotype" and many slides marked "paratype" or "type." However, since Stickney made no mention of a holotype in the original description this material must be considered syntypes.
HOSTS: Pandanaceae: Pandanus penangensis [Stickn1934], Pandanus sp. [Stickn1934, Heu2001], Pandanus tectorius [Stickn1934], Pandanus utilis [Stickn1934].
DISTRIBUTION: Australasian: Hawaiian Islands (Maui [Heu2001] (First observed in 1995 (Heu 2001).)). Oriental: Indonesia (Java [Stickn1934]); Singapore [Stickn1934].
GENERAL REMARKS: Detailed description and illustration of egg, first instar, both sexes of second instar, both sexes of third instar, fourth-instar male, and both sexes of adult by Stickney (1934).
KEYS: Stickney 1934: 119, 120 [Key to species of Thysanococcus].
CITATIONS: Borchs1966 [catalogue, distribution, taxonomy: 27]; Brown1965 [physiology, taxonomy: 202-203]; Heu2001 [distribution, host: 63]; Koteja1974b [distribution, structure: 84, 115]; Koteja1976 [structure: 279, 280]; Koteja1980 [illustration, structure: 79]; KotejaLi1976 [structure: 674, 676]; Stickn1934 [description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy: 5, 119, 120, 127-135].
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