Plectrothrips australis

Plectrothrips australis_Female head and pronotum [L A Mound]

Nomenclatural details

Plectrothrips australis Okajima, 1981: 307.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Australia, under bark.

References

Okajima S (1981) A revision of the tribe Plectrothripini of fungus-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Phlaeothripinae). Systematic Entomology 6: 291–336.

Mound LA & Wells A (2015) Endemics and adventives: Thysanoptera (Insecta) Biodiversity of Norfolk, a tiny Pacific Island. Zootaxa 3964 (2): 183–210.

Type information

Holotype female, Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra.