Heligmothrips brevidens

Nomenclatural details

Liothrips brevidens Hood, 1918: 137.

Teuchothrips spinosus Moulton, 1968: 102. Synonymised by Mound, 1970: 459.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Queensland, Australia (L. brevidens) and New South Wales, Australia (T. spinosus); on Casuarina cunninghamiana.

References

Hood (1918) New genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 121-150.

Moulton D (1968) New Thysanoptera from Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 36: 93–124.

Mound LA (1970) Convoluted maxillary stylets and the systematics of some Phlaeothripine Thysanoptera from Casuarina trees in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 18: 439-463.

Type information

Holotype female (L. brevidens), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Holotype female (T. spinosus), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.