Desmothrips bagnalli
Nomenclatural details
Desmothrips bagnalli Karny, 1920: 36.
Orothrips unguttipennis Girault, 1926: 18. Synonymy discussed in Mound, 1967: 60.
Desmothrips comparabilis Priesner, 1928: 643. Synonymy discussed in Mound, 1967: 60.
Biology and Distribution
Flower-living in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
References
Karny H (1920) Nova Australska Thysanoptera, jez nashbiral Mjöberg. Casopis Ceskoslovenské spolecnosti entomologiscké 17: 35–44.
Girault AA (1925) Two new Thysanoptera from Queensland. Insecutor inscitiae menstruus 13: 34–35.
Priesner H (1928) Über australische Thysanopteren. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 137: 643–659.
Mound LA (1967) A taxonomic revision of the Australian Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 20: 41-74.
Type information
Holotype female (D. bagnalli), Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm.
Holotype male (D. comparabilis), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.
Syntypes (O. unguttipennis), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
