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[[File:PezoKellFull.jpg|thumbnail|Pezothrips kellyanus Female [L A Mound]]]
[[File:PezoKellHdPro.jpg|thumbnail|Pezothrips kellyanus Female, head and pronotum [L A Mound]]]
[[File:PezoKellMSter.jpg|thumbnail|Pezothrips kellyanus Male, sternites [L A Mound]]]
== Nomenclatural details ==
''Physothrips kellyanus'' Bagnall, 1916: 219.

''Physothrips livii'' Girault, 1930: 2. Synonymised by Mound & Houston, 1987: 7. 

''Taeniothrips kellyanus'' (Bagnall, 1916); Mound 1968: 58. 

''Megalurothrips kellyanus'' (Bagnall, 1916); Bhatti, 1969: 241. 

''Pezothrips kellyanus'' (Bagnall, 1916); zur Strassen, 1996: 113. 
== Biology and Distribution ==
Described from Queensland, Australia, and apparently native to that area (Nguyen ''et al''. 2016).
== References ==
Bagnall RS (1916) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera VII. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (8)17: 213–223.

Girault AA (1930) ''New pests from Australia VII''. Privately published, Brisbane. pp. 1–3. 

Mound LA (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology'' 11: 1–181.

Bhatti JS (1969) The taxonomic status of ''Megalurothrips'' Bagnall. ''Oriental Insects'' 3: 239-244.

Mound LA & Houston KJ (1987) An annotated check-list of Thysanoptera from Australia. ''Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology'' 4: 1–28. 

zur Strassen R (1996) Neue daten zur Systematik und Verbreitung einiger west-paläarktischer Terebrantia-Arten (Thysanoptera). ''Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte'' 40: 111–118.

Nguyen DT, Spooner-Hart RN & Riegler M (2016) Loss of ''Wolbachia'' but not ''Cardinium'' in the invasive range of the Australian thrips species, ''Pezothrips kellyanu''s. ''Biological invasions'' 18: 197-214. DOI 10.1007/s10530-015-1002-4

== Type information ==
Lectotype female, The Natural History Museum, London. 

Syntype of ''livii'', Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

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