Asemothrips picturatus

Asemothrips picturatus Female head [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Asemothrips picturatus Hood, 1919: 83.

Empresmothrips longfellowi Girault, 1926: 1.Synonymy in Mound, 1971: 404.

Empresmothrips folii Girault, 1928: 2. Synonymy in Mound, 1996: 306.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Queensland, Australia.

References

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

Girault AA (1926) New pests from Australia V. Published privately, Brisbane 2 pp.

Girault AA (1928) Notice of a curious professor and of native wasps and woodlice. Published privately, Brisbane pp. 1–4.

Mound LA (1996) Thysanoptera, pp 249-336, 397-414 (Index), in Wells A [ed], Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 26. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera. Melbourne. CSIRO Australia.

Type information

Holotype male (A. picturatus), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype male (E. folii), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Lectotype male (E. longfellowi), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.