Phibalothrips longiceps

Nomenclatural details

Heliothrips longiceps Karny, 1913: 123.

Phibalothrips exilis Hood, 1918: 125.

Described from Ralum, New Britain (H. longiceps) and Northern Queensland, Australia (P. exilis).

Karny H (1913) Beitrag zur Thysanopteren-Fauna von Neu-Guinea und Neu-Britannien. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79: 123–136.

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

Mound LA (1970) Studies on heliothripine Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 39: 41–56.

Mound LA, Tree DC & Paris D. (2012) Ozthrips – Thysanoptera in Australia. [1]

Holotype female (P. exilis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype female (H. longiceps), unknown depositary.