Teuchothrips ater

Nomenclatural details

Liothrips ater Girault, 1927: 2.

Androthrips niger Girault, 1927: 2.

Teuchothrips bursariicola Priesner, 1928: 647.

Teuchothrips pittosporiicola Bagnall, 1929: 191.

Smerinthothrips fuscipennis Moulton, 1968: 93.

Teuchothrips ater (Girault); Mound & Houston, 1987: 17.

Biology and Distribution

Described from all over Australia on a variety of plants, mostly Pittosporaceae.

References

Mound LA (2008) Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre-1930. Zootaxa 1714: 41–60.

Mound, LA & Houston, K (1987) An annotated check-list of Thysanoptera from Australia. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 4: 1–28.

Moulton D (1968) New Thysanoptera from Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 36: 93–124.

Mound LA (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11: 1–181

Bagnall RS (1929) On some new genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera (Tubulifera) with special reference to gall-species. Marcellia 25 (1928): 184–204.

Priesner H (1928) Über australische Thysanopteren. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 137: 643–659.

Girault AA (1927) New Australian animals so far overlooked by outsiders. Published privately, Brisbane. pp. 1–2.

Type information

Holotype female (L. ater), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Lectotype male (T. pittosporiicola), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype female, (S. fuscipennis), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Holotype (A. niger), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.