Horistothrips australiae

Horistothrips australiae Female, Head & Pronotum [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Horistothrips australiae Morgan, 1913: 36.

Horistothrips corticis Girault, 1929b: 2. Synonymised by Mound, 2008: 43.

Elaphrothrips thoreauini Girault, 1929b: 3. Synonymised by Mound, 2008: 43.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Swan River, Western Australia. Under dead scales of Eriococcus on Eucalyptus.

References

Morgan (1913) New genera and species of Thysanoptera, with notes on distribution and food plants. Proceedings of the United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution Washington 46 1913: 1-55.

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

Type information

Holotype (H. australiae), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Type specimens (H. corticis, E. thoreauini), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.