Liothrips (Liothrips) pallipes
Nomenclatural details
Gynaikothrips pallipes Karny, 1913: 110.
Gynaikothrips kuwanai Moulton 1928: 308. Synonymy in Mound 2020: 389.
Liothrips reynvaanae Priesner, 1968: 203. Synonymy in Mound 2020: 389.
Gynaikothrips piperis Priesner, 1930: 265. Synonymised with kuwanai by zur Strassen, 1983: 198.
Biology and Distribution
Collected at Semarang, Java, from leaf gall on Piper sp. (L. pallipes), recorded from Honshu, Kyushu and Izu islands, Japan on Piper kadzura (G. kuwanai). Described from Kletak, East Java, Indonesia in leaf galls of Piper sp. (L. reynvaanae); described from Luzon, Philippines (G. piperis). Also from Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, and Queensland, Australia (Mound et al. 2023)
References
Karny H & Docters van Leeuwen-Reijnvaan W & J (1913) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gallen von Java. 5. Über die javanischen Thysanopteren-cecidien und deren Bewohner. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 10: 1-126.
Moulton D (1928) Thysanoptera of Japan: New species, notes, and a list of all known Japanese species. Annotationes zoologicae Japonensis 11: 287-337.
Priesner H (1968) On the genera allied to Liothrips of the Oriental fauna II (Insecta-Thysanoptera). Treubia 27: 175–285.
zur Strassen (1983) Thysanopterologische Notizen (6) (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Senckenbergiana biologica 63: 191-209 [piperis Lectotype]
Okajima S (2006) The Insects of Japan. Volume 2. The suborder Tubulifera (Thysanoptera). Fukuoka: Touka Shobo Co. Ltd. pp. 1–720.
Mound LA (2020) Liothrips species (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) from leaf-galls on Piper species in Southeast Asia and Australia. Zootaxa 4830 (2): 383–391
Mound LA, Dang LH & Tree DJ (2023) The genus Liothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae) in Australia. Zootaxa 5306 (2): 201–214.
Type information
Syntypes female & male of pallipes in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt; Holotype female of kuwanai in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Holotype female of reynvaanae in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.
