Liothrips (Liothrips) pallipes

Nomenclatural details

Gynaikothrips pallipes Karny, 1913: 110.

Gynaikothrips kuwanai Moulton 1928: 308. Synonymy in Mound 2020: 389.

Liothrips reynvaanae Priesner, 1968: 203. Synonymy in Mound 2020: 389.

Biology and Distribution

Collected at Semarang, Java, from leaf gall on Piper sp. (L. pallipes), recorded from Honshu, Kyushu and Izu islands, Japan on Piper kadzura (G. kuwanai).

Described from Kletak, East Java, Indonesia in leaf galls of Piper sp. (L. reynvaanae).

References

Karny H & Docters van Leeuwen-Reijnvaan W & J (1913) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gallen von Java. 5. Über die javanischen Thysanopteren-cecidien und deren Bewohner. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 10: 1-126.

Moulton D (1928) Thysanoptera of Japan: New species, notes, and a list of all known Japanese species. Annotationes zoologicae Japonensis 11: 287-337.

Priesner H (1968) On the genera allied to Liothrips of the Oriental fauna II (Insecta-Thysanoptera). Treubia 27: 175–285.

Mound LA (2020) Liothrips species (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) from leaf-galls on Piper species in Southeast Asia and Australia. Zootaxa 4830 (2): 383–391.

Type information

Syntypes female & male, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt (L. pallipes), Holotype female, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (G. kuwanai), Holotype female, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt (L reynvaanae).