Phaulothrips vuilleti

Nomenclatural details

Phaulothrips vuilleti Hood, 1918: 147.

Titanothrips portentosus Karny, 1920: 40. Synonymised by Mound, 1974: 86.

Biology and Distribution

Australia, on dead Eucalyptus branches. Also recorded from Tanzania by Mound & Palmer, 1983: 27.

References

Hood JD (1918) New genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 121–150.

Karny H (1920) Nova Australska Thysanoptera, jez nashbiral Mjöberg. Casopis Ceskoslovenské spolecnosti entomologiscké 17: 35–44.

Mound LA & Palmer JM (1983) The generic and tribal classification of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 46 : 1–174.

Type information

Holotype, male in US National Museum of Natural History, Washington.