Heptathrips cumberi

Nomenclatural details

Heptathrips cumberi Mound & Walker, 1986: 25.

Biology and Distribution

Described from New Zealand, from manuka, kanuka, Leptospermum foliage and dead wood, Pittosporum, Geniostoma, Hebe sp., dead Phyllocladus and Sequoia wood and Chinochloa sp.. Recorded across southern Australia (Mound, 2007: 58).

References

Mound LA & Walker AK (1986) Tubulifera (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 10: 1–140.

Mound LA (2007) New Australian spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Zootaxa 1604: 53–68.

Type information

Holotype female, New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Auckland.