Cranothrips emersoni

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Head and pronotum

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Tergites VII-X

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Sternites IV-V

Nomenclatural details

Cranothrips emersoni Girault, 1929: 1.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Queensland, Australia, breeding in flowers of Thriptomene sp. (Myrtaceae).

References

Girault AA (1929) New pests from Australia VI. Privately published, Brisbane, pp. 1–4.

Mound LA (1967) A taxonomic revision of the Australian Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 20: 41–74.

Pereyra V & Mound LA (2009) Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Cranothrips (Thysanoptera, Melanthripidae) with consideration of host associations and disjunct distributions within the family. Systematic Entomology 34: 151–161.

Type information

Syntype females, Queensland Museum, Brisbane.