Scirtothrips australiae

Nomenclatural details

Scirtothrips australiae Hood, 1919: 75.

Glaucothrips auricorpus Girault, 1927: 1.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Australia. Collected from Kunzea ericoides, Exocarpus cupressiformis, Melaleuca, leucadendra and Eucalyptus sp. Widespread in Australia.

References

Hood JD (1919) Two new genera and thirteen new species of Australian Thysanoptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 32: 75–92.

Girault AA (1927) Some new wild animals from Queensland. Published privately Brisbane. pp. 1–3.

Hoddle M & Mound LA (2004) The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae). Zootaxa 268: 1–40.

Type information

Holotype female (S. australiae), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Holotype female (G. auricorpus), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.