Nesothrips badius

Nomenclatural details

Cryptothrips badius Hood, 1918: 143.

Elaphrothrips apterus Girault, 1928: 2. Synonymised by Mound, 1974: 23.

Bolothrips badius (Hood, 1918); Mound 1974: 20.

Carientothrips badius (Hood, 1918); Mound 1974: 127.

Nesothrips badius (Hood, 1918); Eow et al. 2014: 215.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Australia. Widespread across Australia, in grass tussocks; also New Zealand.

References

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

Girault AA (1928) Some Insecta and a New All Highness. (Notes compiled in fear and sorrow). Published privately, Brisbane. pp. 1–4.

Mound LA (1974) Spore-feeding Thrips (Phlaeothripidae) from Leaf Litter and Dead Wood in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 1–106.

Mound LA (1974) The Nesothrips complex of spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 31: 109-188.

Mound LA & Walker AK (1986) Tubulifera (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Fauna of New Zealand 10: 1–140.

Eow LX, Mound LA, Tree DJ & Cameron SL (2014) Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae). Zootaxa 3821(2): 193-221.

Type information

Holotype female (C. badius), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.