Mecynothrips wallacei

Nomenclatural details

Mecynothrips wallacei Bagnall, 1908: 357.

Mecynothrips magnus Girault, 1929: 1. Synonymised by Mound, 1971: 283.

Mecynothrips bagnalli Priesner, 1935: 335. Synonymised by Mound, 1971: 283.

Mecynothrips bagnalli f. imbecilla Priesner, 1935: 338. Synonymised by Palmer & Mound, 1978: 206.

Biology and Distribution

Distributed from West Malaysia and Kei islands, Indonesia to northern Australia.

References

Bagnall RS (1908) On some new and curious Thysanoptera (Tubulifera) from Papua. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 1: 355–363.

Girault AA (1929) New pests from Australia VI. Privately published, Brisbane. pp. 1–4.

Priesner H (1935) Indomalayische Thysanopteren VI. Konowia 14: 58–339.

Mound LA (1971) A review of the Melanesian genus Mecynothrips (Thysanoptera). Journal of Natural History 5: 279-283.

Palmer JM & Mound LA (1978) Nine genera of fungus-feeding Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera) from the Oriental Region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 37: 153-215.

Type information

Holotype male (M. wallacei), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype female (M. bagnalli), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Syntypes (M. imbecilla), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Syntypes (M. magnus), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.