View source for Koptothrips flavicornis

== Nomenclatural details ==
''Koptothrips flavicornis'' Bagnall, 1929: 197

''Sphaericothrips clarapennis'' Moulton, 1968: 116. Synonymised by Mound, 1971: 429.  
== Biology and Distribution ==
Described from Victoria, Australia (''K. flavicornis'') and New South Wales (''S, clarapennis'') on various ''Acacia'' species.

== References ==
Bagnall RS (1929) On some new genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera (Tubulifera) with special reference to gall-species. ''Marcellia'' 25(1928): 184–204. 

Moulton D (1968) New Thysanoptera from Australia. ''Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences'' 36 : 93–124.

Mound LA (1971) Gall-forming thrips and allied species (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae) from Acacia trees in Australia. ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology'' 25: 387-466. 

Crespi BJ, Morris DC & Mound LA (2004) ''Evolution of ecological and behavioural diversity: Australian Acacia thrips as model organisms''. Australian Biological Resources Study & Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1–328. 
== Type information ==
Holotype female (''K. flavicornis''), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype female (''S. flavipennis''), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
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