Teuchothrips simplicipennis

Nomenclatural details

Teuchothrips simplicipennis Hood, 1919: 87.

Mesothrips insolens Bagnall, 1924: 638.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Brooklyn, New South Wales, Australia (T. simplicipennis) and Victoria on Leptospermum myrsinoides (M. insolens).

References

Hood JD (1919) Two new genera and thirteen new species of Australian Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 32: 75–92.

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

Type information

Holotype female (T. simplicipennis), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; paratype female in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Syntype (M. insolens), The Natural History Museum, London.