Teuchothrips connatus

Nomenclatural details

Liothrips connatus Hood, 1918: 135.

Cryptothrips nigronympha Girault, 1928: 3.

Biology and Distribution

Described from Pentland, Queensland, Australia (L. connatus). C. nigronympha also from Queensland; host plant possibly Eremophila deserti (Mound, 2008: 50).

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

Type information

Holotype female (L. connatus), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Syntype female (C. nigronympha), Queensland Museum, Brisbane.