Pezothrips kellyanus

Pezothrips kellyanus Female [L A Mound]

Pezothrips kellyanus Female, head and pronotum [L A Mound]

Pezothrips kellyanus Male, sternites [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Physothrips kellyanus Bagnall, 1916: 219.

Physothrips livii Girault, 1930: 2. Synonymised by Mound & Houston, 1987: 7.

Taeniothrips kellyanus (Bagnall, 1916); Mound 1968: 58.

Megalurothrips kellyanus (Bagnall, 1916); Bhatti, 1969: 241.

Pezothrips kellyanus (Bagnall, 1916); zur Strassen, 1996: 113.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Queensland, Australia, and apparently native to that area (Nguyen et al. 2016).

References

Bagnall RS (1916) Brief descriptions of new Thysanoptera VII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)17: 213–223.

Girault AA (1930) New pests from Australia VII. Privately published, Brisbane. pp. 1–3.

Mound LA (1968) A review of R.S. Bagnall's Thysanoptera collections. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 11: 1–181.

Bhatti JS (1969) The taxonomic status of Megalurothrips Bagnall. Oriental Insects 3: 239-244.

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

zur Strassen R (1996) Neue daten zur Systematik und Verbreitung einiger west-paläarktischer Terebrantia-Arten (Thysanoptera). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 40: 111–118.

Nguyen DT, Spooner-Hart RN & Riegler M (2016) Loss of Wolbachia but not Cardinium in the invasive range of the Australian thrips species, Pezothrips kellyanus. Biological invasions 18: 197-214. DOI 10.1007/s10530-015-1002-4

Type information

Lectotype female, The Natural History Museum, London.

Syntype of livii, Queensland Museum, Brisbane.