Horistothrips platygaster

Nomenclatural details

Aspidothrips platygaster Karny, 1920: 39.

Horistothrips platygaster (Karny, 1920); Mound & Houston, 1987: 15.

Horistothrips calvus Karny, 1920: 39. Synonymised by Mound, 2008: 45.

Horistothrips impennis Karny, 1920: 39. Synonymised by Mound, 2008: 45.

Horistothrips ischnosoma Karny, 1920: 39. Synonymised by Mound, 2008: 45.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Brun Deibu, Northwestern Australia.

References

Karny (1920) Nova Australska Thysanoptera, jez nashbiral Mjöberg. Casopis Ceskoslovenské spolecnosti entomologiscké 17: 35-44.

Mound LA & Houston K (1987) An annotated check-list of Thysanoptera from Australia. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 4: 1–28.

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

Type information

Holotype female (A. platygaster), Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm; paratype female in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Syntype females of 'calvus & impennis, Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholmmale & female syntypes of impennis in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Lectotype female (H. ischnosoma), Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm.