Crespithrips hesperus

Nomenclatural details

Crespithrips hesperus Mound & Morris, 2000: 134.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Western Australia.

References

Crespi BJ, Morris DC & Mound LA (2004) Evolution of ecological and behavioural diversity: Australian Acacia thrips as model organisms. Australian Biological Resources Study & Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1–328.

Mound LA & Morris DC (2000) Inquilines or kleptoparasites? New phlaeothripine Thysanoptera (Insecta) associated with domicile-building thrips on Acacia trees. Australian Journal of Entomology 39 : 130–137.

Type information

Holotype female, Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra.