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== Nomenclatural details ==
''Liothrips ater'' Girault, 1927: 2. 

''Androthrips niger'' Girault, 1927: 2. 

''Teuchothrips bursariicola'' Priesner, 1928: 647. 

''Teuchothrips pittosporiicola'' Bagnall, 1929: 191. 

''Smerinthothrips fuscipennis'' Moulton, 1968: 93. 

''Teuchothrips ater'' (Girault, 1927); Mound & Houston, 1987: 17. 
== Biology and Distribution ==
Described from all over Australia on a variety of plants, mostly Pittosporaceae. 
== References ==
Girault AA (1927) ''New Australian animals so far overlooked by outsiders''. Published privately, Brisbane. pp. 1–2.

Priesner H (1928) Über australische Thysanopteren. ''Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften'' 137: 643–659. 

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

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

Moulton D (1968) New Thysanoptera from Australia. ''Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences'' 36: 93–124. 
 
Mound, LA & Houston, K (1987) An annotated check-list of Thysanoptera from Australia. ''Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology'' 4: 1–28.

Mound LA (2008) Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre-1930. ''Zootaxa'' 1714: 41–60.

== Type information ==
Holotype female (''L. ater''), Queensland Museum, Brisbane; syntype males & females of ''bursariicola'' in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. 

Lectotype male (''T. pittosporiicola''), The Natural History Museum, London.

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

Holotype (''A. niger''), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
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