oa Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa - A new species of Triphleps (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Anthocoridae) predaceous on the citrus thrips (Scirtothrips aurantii Faure) in the Transvaal

Abstract

Professor J. C. Faure, professor of Entomology at the University of Pretoria, has very kindly submitted to me for identification a number of specimens of a species belonging to the genus Triphleps Fieb. which, according to Mr. E. C. G. Bedford a research student, is predaceous on the South African citrus thrips (Scirtothrips aurantii Faure) in the Transvaal.