Phaulothrips vuilleti

Nomenclatural details

Phaulothrips vuilleti Hood, 1918: 147.

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

Biology and Distribution

Described from Nelson (P. vuilleti) and Cedar Creek (T. portentosus), Queensland, Australia. Also collected from New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory on Acacia buxifolia and Northern Territory. 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 (P. vuilleti), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.