Teuchothrips ater

Nomenclatural details

Liothrips ater Girault, 1927: 2.

Androthrips niger Girault, 1927: 2.

Teuchothrips bursariicola Priesner, 1928: 647.

Teuchothrips pittosporiicola Bagnall, 1929: 191.

Smerinthothrips fuscipennis Moulton, 1968: 93.

Teuchothrips ater (Girault, 1927); Mound & Houston, 1987: 17.

Biology and Distribution

Described from all over Australia on a variety of plants, mostly Pittosporaceae.

References

Girault AA (1927) New Australian animals so far overlooked by outsiders. Published privately, Brisbane. pp. 1–2.

Priesner H (1928) Über australische Thysanopteren. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 137: 643–659.

Bagnall RS (1929) On some new genera and species of Australian Thysanoptera (Tubulifera) with special reference to gall-species. Marcellia 25 (1928): 184–204.

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

Moulton D (1968) New Thysanoptera from Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 36: 93–124.

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

Mound LA (2008) Identification and host associations of some Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae described from Australia pre-1930. Zootaxa 1714: 41–60.

Type information

Holotype female (L. ater), Queensland Museum, Brisbane; syntype males & females of bursariicola in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.

Lectotype male (T. pittosporiicola), The Natural History Museum, London.

Holotype female, (S. fuscipennis), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Holotype (A. niger), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.